Russian Airborne Forces

Army · Russia

Fought in Second Chechen War Wikipedia

Attached units 11

August 10, 2014 – September 2, 2014 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade Under this formation at Battle of Ilovaisk (Wikipedia infobox)
August 10, 2014 – September 2, 2014 137th Guards Airborne Regiment Under this formation at Battle of Ilovaisk (Wikipedia infobox)
August 10, 2014 – September 2, 2014 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment Under this formation at Battle of Ilovaisk (Wikipedia infobox)
August 10, 2014 – September 2, 2014 331st Guards Airborne Regiment Under this formation at Battle of Ilovaisk (Wikipedia infobox)
December 8, 2016 – December 22, 2016 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment Under this formation at Palmyra offensive (December 2016) (Wikipedia infobox)
May 7, 2017 – July 13, 2017 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade Under this formation at Syrian Desert campaign (May–July 2017) (Wikipedia infobox)
February 25, 2022 – March 31, 2022 104th Guards Air Assault Regiment Under this formation at Battle of Kyiv (2022) (Wikipedia infobox)
February 25, 2022 – April 1, 2022 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade Under this formation at Battle of Hostomel (Wikipedia infobox)
February 27, 2022 – March 31, 2022 76th Guards Air Assault Division Under this formation at Battle of Bucha (Wikipedia infobox)
February 27, 2022 – March 31, 2022 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment Under this formation at Battle of Bucha (Wikipedia infobox)
February 27, 2022 – March 28, 2022 18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment Under this formation at Battle of Irpin (Wikipedia infobox)

Movements

September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
August 8 – October 16, 1941 Siege of Odessa
October 30, 1941 – July 4, 1942 Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)
May 1942 Operation Bustard Hunt
July 17, 1942 – February 2, 1943 Battle of Stalingrad
July 5 – August 23, 1943 Battle of Kursk
August 24 – December 23, 1943 Battle of the Dnieper
April 8 – May 12, 1944 Crimean offensive
June 22 – August 19, 1944 Operation Bagration
April 2–13, 1945 Vienna offensive
May 6–11, 1945 Prague offensive
June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953 Korean War
December 24, 1979 – February 15, 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
November 19, 1987 – January 10, 1988 Operation Magistral
February 20, 1988 – May 12, 1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War
January 5, 1991 – June 24, 1992 South Ossetia war (1991–1992)
1992 East Prigorodny conflict
March 2 – July 21, 1992 Transnistria War
December 11, 1994 – August 31, 1996 First Chechen War
August 2 – September 14, 1999 1999 war in Dagestan
February 29 – March 1, 2000 Battle for Height 776
March 6–24, 2000 Battle of Komsomolskoye
August 7–16, 2008 Russo-Georgian War
August 8–11, 2008 Battle of Tskhinvali
March 15, 2011 – December 8, 2024 Syrian civil war
February 20, 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War
April 12, 2014 – February 24, 2022 War in Donbas
August 10 – September 2, 2014 Battle of Ilovaisk
December 8–22, 2016 Palmyra offensive (December 2016)
May 7 – July 13, 2017 Syrian Desert campaign (May–July 2017)
2022 Battle of Moshchun
February 24 – March 26, 2022 Battle of Trostianets
February 24 – March 31, 2022 Battle of Romny
February 24, 2022 Battle of Okhtyrka
February 24–26, 2022 Battle of Konotop (2022)
February 24, 2022 Battle of Hlukhiv
February 24–25, 2022 Battle of Antonov Airport
February 24 – March 2, 2022 Battle of Kherson
February 24, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
February 25, 2022 Battle of Volnovakha
February 25, 2022 Battle of Ivankiv
February 25 – March 31, 2022 Battle of Kyiv (2022)
February 25 – April 1, 2022 Battle of Hostomel
February 25 – April 8, 2022 Battle of Mykolaiv
February 26 – April 4, 2022 Lebedyn strikes
February 26, 2022 Battle of Vasylkiv
February 27 – March 28, 2022 Battle of Irpin
February 27 – March 31, 2022 Battle of Bucha
March 3, 2022 Battle of Izium (2022)
March 18, 2022 Battle of Popasna
May 6 – June 25, 2022 Battle of Sievierodonetsk (2022)
August 9, 2022 – January 7, 2024 Battle of Bakhmut
August 29, 2022 2022 Kherson counteroffensive
June 2023 – December 2023 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
February 19, 2025 2025 Sumy offensive