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The Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL, Russian: Легион «Свобода России», romanized: Legion "Svoboda Rossii"; Ukrainian: Легіон «Свобода Росії», romanized: Lehion "Svoboda Rosii"; abbr. ЛСР, romanized: LSR), also called the Free Russia Legion, is a Ukrainian-based paramilitary unit of Russian citizens, which opposes the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin ...
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,[a]commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the militaryof Russia. It is organized into three service branches—the Ground Forces, Navy, and Aerospace Forces—two independent combat arms (the Strategic Rocket Forcesand Airborne Forces),[10]and the Special Operations Forces Command.
Russian troops in Chechnya in 2000. The military history of the Russian Federation began with the establishment of the Russian Armed Forces following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This was followed by its engagements in post-Soviet conflicts, from the ongoing war in Transnistria that started in 1990, after which many reforms were put in ...
The Russian Liberation Army (German: Russische Befreiungsarmee; Russian: Русская освободительная армия, Russkaya osvoboditel'naya armiya, abbreviated as РОА, ROA, also known as the Vlasov army (Власовская армия, Vlasovskaya armiya) was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II.
A Russian Mil Mi-8 helicopter. Chinese Type 96 tanks. Vostok 2018 ( Russian: Восток 2018, lit. 'East 2018' [note 1] [1]) was a large-scale Russian military exercise, held from 11 to 17 September 2018, throughout Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Eastern Military District. [2] [3] [4] The exercise involved units from the Army, Air ...
The new batches of DXL-5, manufactured for the Russian army, are made under the Russian cartridge 12.7×108mm. ASVK: 12.7×108mm Russia: Anti-materiel rifle: Used by special forces. The modernized ASVK-M Kord-M is being adopted by the Russian army. OSV-96: 12.7×108mm Russia: Anti-materiel rifle Used by Spetsnaz units. Recoilless rifle SPG-9
The 3rd Army Corps ( Russian: 3-й армейский корпус) is a military formation of the Russian Ground Forces formed in June 2022 to participate in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [2] The 3rd Corps was raised in response to the depletion of trained manpower during the early months of the invasion. It was formed exclusively by ...
Morozov was the former leader of Red Blitzkrieg, a Russian Stalinist group. He fired four shots from a sawn-off shotgun towards the United Russia office on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow in March 2007. [6] Morozov took part in the attack on the Polish Embassy in Moscow. In 2008, found guilty of hooliganism, illegal possession of weapons, and ...