#Russia will deploy a new VDV airborne regiment to occupied #Crimea by 2021.— Petri Mäkelä (@pmakela1) December 17, 2019
Regiment will expand the 7th Airborne Division stationed in Novorossiysk from two to three regiments.
Other VDV divisions are also expanded.#crimeaisukraine https://t.co/bWNssru6FX
I wonder. Why VDV instead of motorized infantry? Yeah I know VDV's in Russia's table of forces have a degree of mechanization but not to the extent of a purebred motorized infantry division.
Is this a move to send a signal? Are they so confident in their hybrid warfare scheme that they don't have to send heavier forces? Is even this force more than capable of holding onto gains against Ukrainian attempts to take back the land (assuming they even want to...and I assume they do), or something else entirely?
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