BARS or Combat Army Reserve of the Country (russian: Боевой Армейский Резерв Страны - БАРС) is a Russian military reserve force implemented since 2021. BARS troops have been used in the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

Units

*BARS-1,

Kuban Cossacks Kuban Cossacks (russian: кубанские казаки, ''kubanskiye kаzaki''; uk, кубанські козаки, ''kubanski kozaky''), or Kubanians (russian: кубанцы, ; uk, кубанці, ), are Cossacks who live in the Kuban re ...

*BARS-9, Commander Rustam Ziganshin died in September 2021. *BARS-13, 'Russian Legion' Commander

Sergei Fomchenkov Sergei Alexandrovich Fomchenkov (russian: Сергей Александрович Фомченков, born on 8 December 1973 in Smolensk) is a Russian politician, a former member of the banned National Bolshevik Party The National Bolshevik ...

. *BARS-16, 'Kuban',

References

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