December 24, 1979 — at Bagram airfield, 50 km north of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, units of the 105th Guards Airborne Division were landed.

The war in Afghanistan began.
Simultaneously with the introduction of troops, Soviet special services carried out an operation codenamed “Storm-333”, the objective of which was the physical elimination of Afghanistan’s leader, Hafizullah Amin.

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