PARIS (Reuters) – British paratroopers recreating an airdrop behind German defences to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day were met by French customs officials at a makeshift border checkpost. Moments after the paratroopers had hit the ground and gathered up their chutes, they formed an orderly queue and handed over their passports for inspection by […]
Ukraine’s 79th Air Assault Brigade appeared to destroy 23 Russian tanks and armored vehicles in Novomykhailivka, Donetsk Oblast.Julia Ropcke Twitter Ukrainian troops released footage appearing to show the total destruction of a Russian brigade. Russia has suffered heavy losses along this route, known as the “road of death.” Ukraine’s elite 79th Air Assault Brigade published […]
Elite Russian troops are refusing to launch “human wave attacks,” a Ukrainian official said. Nataliya Humenyuk said the marines and paratroopers were concerned over huge losses in the assaults. Former prisoners and poorly-trained reservists typically carry out costly frontal assaults, she said. Russian marines and paratroopers are refusing to launch certain types of assaults due […]
Elite Russian troops are refusing to launch “human wave attacks,” a Ukrainian official said. Nataliya Humenyuk said the marines and paratroopers were concerned over huge losses in the assaults. Former prisoners and poorly-trained reservists typically carry out costly frontal assaults, she said. Russian marines and paratroopers are refusing to launch certain types of assaults due […]
A unit of Ukrainian paratroopers destroyed a platoon of Russians in one night using drones, the airborne assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Jan 3. According to the message, paratroopers of the 25th Airborn Brigade “Sicheslav” destroyed the Russian platoon, referring to their work as “jewelry.” Read also: Russian soldier betrays […]
The Office of Prosecutor General of Ukraine has reason to suspect soldiers from the Russian 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division, also known as the Pskov Airborne Division, of executing three Ukrainian prisoners of war. Source: Yurii Bielousov, Head of the Department of Combating Crimes in the Context of the Armed Conflict in the Office of […]
A division of Russian paratroopers suffered extremely heavy losses while attempting to knock out Ukrainian forces near the village of Krynky on the left bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast, despite Vladimir Putin‘s claims of the contrary. Source: UK Defence Intelligence review dated 14 October, as reported by European Pravda Quote: “In early […]