The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military of Russia. They are organised into three service branches—the Ground Forces, Navy, and Ae
Russian soldiers and a BTR-70 of the Kosovo Force (KFOR) in August 2000.
Russian service members at Khmeimim Air Base, the headquarters for the Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war, in December 2017.
Russian troops marching in the 2024 Moscow Victory Day Parade
Andrey Belousov Minister of Defence
The Battle of Bakhmut was a major battle between the Russian Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces for control of the city of Bakhmut, during the eastern front, a theatre of the Russo-Ukrainian
View of western Bakhmut in April 2023
An apartment block in Bakhmut after Russian shelling. Shelling of the city began in May 2022.
A Ukrainian soldier in a trench near Bakhmut, November 2022
A 9K22 Tunguska of Ukraine's 30th Mechanized Brigade Anti-Air Battalion in the vicinity of Bakhmut