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order of battle In modern use, the order of battle of an armed force participating in a military operation or campaign shows the hierarchical organization, command structure, strength, disposition of personnel, and equipment of units and formations of the armed ...

for 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 ...

Russian and other forces

Initial groupings: February 2022

Ukrainian military commentator Yuri Butusov presented the following initial February 2022 deployment of the Russian forces: Southwestern Belarus grouping (blocking contingent against Ukrainian forces in Western Ukraine): * located around Brest, Luninets, Baranovichi, Osipovichi and Minsk * including forces from the Northern Fleet (200th (Arctic) Motor Rifle Brigade, 61st Guards Naval Infantry Brigade) and the VDV (76th and 98th Guards airborne divisions), estimated strength of 6–7 battalion tactical groups Southeastern Belarus grouping (Kyiv offensive direction): * located around Vepri, Elsin, Bragin, Khainini, Rechitsya and Mozir * including forces from the 5th, 35th and 36th Combined Arms Armies, estimated strength of 7–9 battalion tactical groups Bryansk grouping (Chernihiv offensive direction): * located around Klimovo, Klintsi, Pochep and Sevsk * including forces from the 41st Combined Arms Army and the 90th Guards Tank Division, estimated strength of 3 battalion tactical groups Kursk – Belgorod grouping (Sumy offensive direction): * located around Tomarovka, Vesela Lopan', Zorino, Pristen', Kursk and Belgorod * including forces from the 6th and 20th combined arms armies, estimated strength of 4 battalion tactical groups Voronezh grouping (Kharkiv offensive direction): * located around Stariy Oskol, Soloti, Valuyki, Boguchar, Pogonovo and Voronezh * including forces from the 6th Tank and 20th combined arms armies, estimated strength of 13–14 battalion tactical groups Smolensk grouping (operational reserve of the northern front) * located around Yel'nya * including forces from the 20th and 41st combined arms armies, estimated strength of 6–7 battalion tactical groups Rostov grouping (Donbas and eastern Sea of Azov offensive direction) * located around Rostov-on-the-Don and Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy * including forces from the 8th Combined Arms Army, estimated strength of 6 battalion tactical groups * Ukraine says the 8th CAA has operational control over the Donetsk People's Militia and the Luhansk People's Militia, naming them the Russian 1st and 2nd Army Corps Crimea grouping (southern Ukraine offensive direction): * located around the Crimean Peninsula (Slavne, Dzhankoy, Novoozerne, Yevpatoriya, Sevastopol, Oktyabrskoye, Bakhchisaray, Angarskiy, Feodosiya, Opuk) * including forces from the 58th Combined Arms Army and the Black Sea Fleet's 22nd Army Corps (810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade), estimated strength of up to 13 battalion tactical groups Kuban grouping (operational reserve of the southern front) * located around the Kuban Peninsula (Novorossiysk, Korenovsk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar, Mol'kino and Maykop) and Stavropol * including forces from the 49th Combined Arms Army, the Black Sea Fleet's 22nd Army Corps and the VDV's 7th Guards (Mountain) Air Assault Division, estimated strength of 6 battalion tactical groups

Leadership changes

In April 2022, Army General Aleksandr Dvornikov was placed in overall charge of military operations in Ukraine, effectively ending the grouping system. In June 2022 Colonel General

Gennady Zhidko Gennady Valeryevich Zhidko (russian: Геннадий Валериевич Жидко, links=no; born 12 September 1965) is a colonel general of the Russian Armed Forces. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017 for his se ...

was appointed by

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to the top position, replacing Dvornikov. In October 2022, Army General Sergey Surovikin, previously commander of Aerospace Forces and Army Group South, replaced Zhidko in overall command.

Chain of command

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(deputy director of the Federal Security Service and Head of the Border Service: Vladimir Kulishov) ** Federal Protective Service **

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(Leader: Lieutenant Colonel

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Russian General Staff The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (russian: Генеральный штаб Вооружённых сил Российской Федерации, General'nyy shtab Vooruzhonnykh sil Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the mil ...

( Chief of the General Staff and First Deputy Minister of Defence: General of the Army

Valery Gerasimov Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov ( rus, Валерий Васильевич Герасимов, p=vɐˈlʲerʲɪj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪdʑ ɡʲɪˈrasʲɪməf; born 8 September 1955) is a Russian army general serving as the Chief of the General Sta ...

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(Director: Admiral

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) ***** 8th Directorate - Directorate Spetsnaz (

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) ****** 2nd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Konstantin Bushuev) ****** 10th Spetsnaz Brigade ****** 14th Spetsnaz Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Albert Karimov ) ****** 16th Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Eugene Gerasimenko , deputy commander Major Dmitri Vladimirovich Semenov ) ****** 22nd Spetsnaz Brigade ****** 24th Spetsnaz Brigade **** Special Operation Forces (SSO) (Major General Valery Flyustikov) ***** 346th Spetsnaz Brigade ***

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and Deputy Minister of Defence: General of the Army

Oleg Salyukov Oleg Leonidovich Salyukov (russian: Олег Леонидович Салюков; born 21 May 1955) is an Army General and the current Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces. He was appointed to the post in May 2014. He was promoted to t ...

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Russian Engineer Troops The Engineer Troops of the Russian Federation () are a military administrative corps of the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation designed to perform military engineering operations (combat actions), requiring special training of personnel and ...

(Lieutenant General Yuri Stavitsky) **** Russian Missile Troops and Artillery (Lieutenant-General Mikhail Matveyevsky) ****

Russian Tank Troops The Russian Tank Troops () are the armored forces branch of the Russian Ground Forces. They are mainly used in conjunction with the motorized rifle troops in the main areas and perform the following tasks: * in defence – on direct support of th ...

**** Russian Air Defence Troops **** Army Aviation component ***

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(Colonel General

, who replaced Army General Dmitry Bulgakov in September 2022) ****

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Russian Aerospace Forces The Russian Aerospace Forces or Russian Air and Space Forces ( rus, Воздушно-космические силы, r=Vozdushno-kosmicheskiye sily) or VKS ( rus, ВКС}) comprise the air and space branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Fe ...

( Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces and Deputy Minister of Defence: Colonel General Sergey Surovikin) ****

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and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces: Lieutenant General ) ***

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(Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces: Colonel-General Mikhail Yurevich Teplinskiy who replaced Colonel General

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in June 2022 *** Russian Navy (

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and Deputy Minister of Defence: Admiral

Nikolai Yevmenov Nikolai Anatolyevich Yevmenov () (born 2 April 1962) is a Russian admiral currently serving as the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy. Biography Yevmenov was born on 2 April 1962 in Moscow. He studied at the between 1980 and 1987, after ...

) ****

Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy The Coastal Troops () are a service arm of the Russian Navy, designed to guard Russian fleets' forces, personnel, and seashore objects against exposure to enemy surface ships; to defend naval bases and other important facilities of the Fleets from ...

(Lieutenant General Viktor Astapov) *****

Russian Naval Infantry The Russian Naval Infantry (MPR; ), often referred to as Russian Marines in the West, operate as the naval infantry of the Russian Navy. Established in 1705, they are capable of conducting amphibious operations as well as operating as more tradit ...

(Lieutenant General ) ****

Russian Naval Aviation The Russian Naval Aviation ( rus, Авиация Военно-морского флота России, r=Aviatsiya Voenno-morskovo Flota Rossii) is the air arm of the Russian Navy, a successor of Soviet Naval Aviation. The Russian Navy is divid ...

(Major-General Igor Kozhin) *** Commander of Russian forces in Ukraine: Colonel General Sergey Surovikin , (replacing Colonel General

), (replacing Army General Alexander Dvornikov) ****

Central Military District The Central Military District (Russian: Центральный военный округ) is a military district of Russia. It is one of the five military districts of the Russian Armed Forces, with its jurisdiction primarily within the ...

(Commander: Major General Alexander Linkov) (formerly Colonel General Alexander Lapin (until October 2022)) ***** Ground Forces ****** 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, CMD (Major General Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Gurov) ******* 21st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Dmitri Zavyalov) ******* 30th Motor Rifle Brigade ******* 385th Guards Artillery Brigade ******

41st Combined Arms Army The 41st Combined Arms Army (russian: 41-я общевойсковая армия) is a field army of the Russian Ground Forces, currently part of the Central Military District. Originally, it was formed in 1942 as part of the Soviet Red Army, dur ...

, CMD (Lieutenant General , Deputy Commander Major General

Andrei Sukhovetsky Andrei Aleksandrovich Sukhovetsky (russian: Андрей Александрович Суховецкий; 25 June 1974 – 28 February 2022) was a Russian Airborne Forces major general (one-star rank). He was killed in action during the 2022 Rus ...

) ******* 35th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade ******* 55th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade ******* 74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Alekseyevich Yershov) (seriously depleted at failed Donets River crossing at Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast) (withdrawn to Russia) ******* 90th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Ramil Rakhmatulovich Ibatullin) ******** 6th Tank Regiment (Colonel Andrei Zakharov ) ******** 80th Tank Regiment ******** 239th Guards Tank Regiment - fought in Battle of Brovary, 9–10 March 2022. ******** 228th Motorized Rifle Regiment (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Fezul Bichikaev ) ******** 400th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment ****** 201st Military Base, CMD (original location Tajikistan) ****** 202nd Motorized Rifle Regiment ****** 28th Pontoon Bridge Brigade **** Eastern Military District (Commander: Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov ) ***** Ground Forces ****** 5th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Major General Aleksey Podivilov) ******* 60th Motor Rifle Brigade ******* 127th Motor Rifle Division ******** 394th Motorized Rifle Regiment ******** 872nd Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Fyodor Evgenievich Solovyov ) ****** 29th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Major General Andrei Borisovich Kolesnikov ) ******* 36th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel (Guards) Andrei Vladimirovich Voronkov) ******

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, EMD (Lieutenant General Aleksandr Semyonovich Sanchik, Deputy Commander Major General Sergei Nyrkov ounded, not returning to active duty ******* 38th ''Guards'' Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Andrey Borisovich Kurbanov, Deputy Commander Major Sergey Masterov ) ******* 64th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Azatbek Asanbekovich Omurbekov, allegedly responsible for the

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) (effectively destroyed by September 2022) ******* 165th Artillery Brigade ******* 69th Covering Brigade ******

36th Combined Arms Army The 36th Combined Arms Army is a combined arms (field army, field) army of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Eastern Military District (Military Unit Number 05776). History The army was formed in 1997 from the 55th Army Corps (Russia), 55t ...

, EMD (Lieutenant General Valery Solodchuk, Deputy Commander Major General Andrei Anatolyevich Seritskiy, seriously wounded) ******* 5th Guards Tank Brigade *******

37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade The 37th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Don Cossack Budapest Red Banner Order of the Red Star Brigade named after Ye. A. Shchadenko is a motor rifle brigade of the Russian Ground Forces (Military Unit Number 69647). It is stationed at Kyakhta in Bu ...

(Colonel Yuri Medvedev) ******* 30th Artillery Brigade ******* 103rd Rocket Brigade ****** 68th Army Corps, EMD (Lieutenant General Dmitry Valeryevich Glushenkov) ******* 39th Motor Rifle Brigade ****

Western Military District The Western Military District (russian: Западный военный округ, Zapadnyy voyennyy okrug) is a Military districts of Russia, military district of Russia. It is one of the five military districts of the Russian Armed Forces, ...

(Commander: Colonel General Sergei Kuzovlev (formerly Colonel General Alexander Lapin (September 2022 to October 2022)) (replaced Lieutenant General Roman Berdnikov (4 September to 19 September 2022)) (replaced Andrei Sychevoi (from June 2022; dismissed by 4 September 2022)) (replaced Colonel General

Alexander Zhuravlyov Colonel General Alexander Alexandrovich Zhuravlyov (russian: Александр Александрович Журавлёв; born 5 December 1965) is a Russian Ground Forces officer who has commanded the military force in Syria during the Russ ...

in June 2022) ***** Ground Forces ******

1st Guards Tank Army The 1st Guards Tank Army () is a tank Field army, army of the Russian Ground Forces. The army traces its heritage back to the 1st Tank Army, formed twice in July 1942 and in January 1943 and converted into the 1st Guards Tank Army in January 1 ...

, WMD (Lieutenant General Sergey Aleksandrovich Kisel ismissed unnamed deputy commander ismissed ******* 60th Command Brigade *******

2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division The 2nd Guards M. I. Kalinin Taman Motor Rifle Division (russian: 2-я гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская ордена Октябрьской Революции Краснознаменная ордена Су ...

(Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Andriy Smirnov – seriously wounded) ********

1st Guards Tank Regiment The 1st Guards Tank Chertkov Twice Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov, and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Regiment named for Marshal of Armed Forces M. E. Katukov (1 ''gv. tp'') (; Military Unit Number 58198) is a highly decorated tank regim ...

(Lieutenant Colonel Denis Lapin) ******** 15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Colonel Kharitonov – seriously wounded) ******** 147th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment ******* 4th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Yevgeny Nikolayevich Zhuravlyov) ******** 12th Guards Tank Regiment (S. I. Safonov) ******** 13th Guards Tank Regiment ********

423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle Regiment The 423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle Regiment () is a regiment of the Soviet Army and Russian Ground Forces. For most of the post-war period, it is a part of the 4th Guards Tank Division. History The 31st Motorised Brigade was formed in June ...

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27th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade The 27th Separate Guards Sevastopol Red Banner Motor Rifle Brigade "60th Anniversary of the USSR" () is a tactical formation of the Russian Ground Forces. Its Military Unit Number (V/Ch) is 61899 (military unit 61899). It is part of 1st Guards Tank ...

(Colonel Sergey Safonov) ******* 47th Guards Tank Division ******** 26th Tank Regiment ******** 6th Engineer Regiment (Colonel Mikhail Aleksandrovich Nagamov ) ******* 49th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Colonel Ivan Grishin ) ******* 69th Logistics Brigade ******* 96th Reconnaissance Brigade ******* 112th Guards Missile Brigade ******* 202nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade ******* 288th Artillery Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Evseev ) ******

6th Combined Arms Army The 6th Army is a field army of the Red Army and the Soviet Army that was active with the Russian Ground Forces until 1998. It appears to have been reformed in 2010 as the 6th Combined Arms Army. It was first formed in August, 1939 in the Kiev S ...

, WMD (Lieutenant General Vladislav Nikolayevich Yershov ismissed & arrested ******* 25th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade ******* 138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Sergei Maksimov) ****** 20th Guards Combined Arms Army, WMD (Lieutenant General Andrey Sergeevich Ivanaev) ******* 448th Rocket Brigade (Colonel Dmitri Nikolaevich Martynov) ******* 3rd Motor Rifle Division (Major General Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Avdeyev) ******** 237th Tank Regiment ******** 252nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Colonel Igor Nikolaev ) ********

752nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment The 752nd Guards Petrokovskaya twice Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Motor Rifle Regiment is a mechanized infantry regiment of the Russian Ground Forces. Its first forebears were the 6th Guards Mechanised Regiment, ...

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144th Guards Motor Rifle Division The 144th Guards Yelnya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Motor Rifle Division () is a motorized infantry division of the Russian Ground Forces, reestablished in 2016 with its headquarters at Yelnya, Smolensk Oblast. The division traces its lineage ba ...

(Major General Oleg Tsokov , (), previously Major General Vitaly Sleptsov) ******** 59th Tank Regiment (Colonel Alexander Bespalov ) ******** 254th Motorised Rifle Regiment (Colonel I.A. Danshin) ******** 488th Motorised Rifle Regiment ****** 232nd Rocket Artillery Brigade ****** 3rd Army Corps ***** Naval Forces ****** 11th Army Corps, from the Baltic Fleet (Lieutenant General Andrey Ruzinsky) ******* 18th Motor Rifle Division ******* 152nd Guard Missile Brigade ******* 244th Artillery Brigade ****** 14th Army Corps, from the Northern Fleet (Lieutenant-General Dmitry Krayev) ******* 80th Arctic Motor Rifle Brigade ******* 200th Motor Rifle Brigade, (Colonel Denis Yuryevich Kurilo ) ******** 382nd Rocket Artillery Battalion (Lieutenant Colonel Dinar Khametov ) ****** 61st ''Red Banner'' Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel Kirill Nikolaevich Nikulin), from the Northern Fleet ******* 874th Marine Battalion (Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Safronov ) ****** 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade, from the Pacific Fleet ****** 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel (Guards) Igor N. Kalmykov, Chief of Staff Colonel Ruslan Shirin ), from the Baltic Fleet ***** Airborne Forces ******

98th Guards Airborne Division The 98th Guards Airborne Division is an airborne division of the Russian Airborne Troops, currently based in Ivanovo. Russian 98th Airborne Division patch.svg, 98th Guards Airborne Division shoulder sleeve insignia (1993) History During the Se ...

(Guards Colonel Viktor Igoryevich Gunaza ismissed by end of March Head of Communications Colonel Alexey Smirnov ) ******* 217th Guards Airborne Regiment (Guards Lt. Colonel Viktor Vasilyevich Droedov) ******* 331st Guards Airborne Regiment (Colonel Sergei Sukharev , Deputy Commander Lt. Colonel Ivan Pozdeev , Chief of Staff Lt. Colonel Igor Zharov ) (seriously depleted in fighting near Kyiv) ******* 1065th Guards Artillery Regiment ****** 106th Guards Airborne Division (Guards Colonel Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Selivyorstov, Deputy Commander Colonel Sergey Igorevich Kuzminov , Deputy Armaments Commander Maxim Kudrin ) ******* 51st Guards Airborne Regiment *******

137th Guards Airborne Regiment The 137th Guards Airborne Regiment is a formation of the Russian Airborne Troops. It is part of the 106th Guards Tula Airborne Division. In 2014, the regiment was involved in the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. It fought again in the R ...

(Colonel Andrey Vasilyev , Deputy Commander Lt. Colonel Pavel Krivov ) ****** 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade (Colonel Sergei Karasev ) ******

83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade The 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade is an airborne brigade of the Russian Airborne Troops, first formed in 1986. It is currently based in Ussuriysk. History Soviet era The brigade traces its history back to the formation of the 65th Separate Air ...

(Deputy Commander Guards Lieutenant-Colonel Vitaliy Slabtsov ) ****** 45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Vadim Pankov) ) **** Aerospace Forces ***** 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Lieutenant General Oleg Makovetsky) ****** 105th Guards Composite Aviation Division ******* 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (

Sukhoi Su-30 The Sukhoi Su-30 (russian: Сухой Су-30; NATO reporting name: Flanker-C/G/H) is a twin-engine, two-seat supermaneuverable fighter aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by Russia's Sukhoi Aviation Corporation. It is a multirole fighte ...

) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Pazinich ) ******* 47th Composite Aviation Regiment (

Sukhoi Su-34 The Sukhoi Su-34 (russian: Сухой Су-34; NATO reporting name: Fullback) is a Soviet-origin Russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/strike aircraft. It first flew in 1990, intended for the Sov ...

) ******* 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment (

Sukhoi Su-35 The Sukhoi Su-35 (russian: link=no, Сухой Су-35; NATO reporting name: Flanker-E) is the designation for two improved derivatives of the Su-27 air-defence fighter. They are single-seat, twin-engine, supermaneuverable aircraft, design ...

) ******* 790th Fighter Aviation Regiment (

) ****** 332nd Helicopter Regiment (

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) ******** 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Aleksei Gorobets ) (Deputy Commander Colonel Sergey Nikolaevich Kens ) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Yurievich Avramchenko ) (Deputy Commander Colonel Kanat Mukatov ) ********* 33rd Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Agarkov ) ********* 255th Motor Rifle Regiment ******** 150th Motor Rifle Division (Major General

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) ********* 102nd Motor Rifle Regiment ********* 163rd Guards Tank Regiment ******* 49th Combined Arms Army, SMD (Lieutenant General

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) ******** 205th Motor Rifle ''Cossack'' Brigade (Colonel Eduard Yurievich Shandura ) ******** 1st Guards Rocket Brigade ******** 227th Artillery Brigade (Colonel Aleksei Viktorovich Repin) ******** 32nd Engineer-Sapper Regiment ******** 7th Military Base *******

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(unknown, formerly Lieutenant General Mikhail Stepanovich Zusko) ******** 19th Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Dmitri Ivanovich Uskov) ********* 429th Motor Rifle Regiment ********* 503rd Motor Rifle Regiment ******** 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division ********* 70th Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Bezlyudko ) ********* 71st Motor Rifle Regiment ********* 291st Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Dibir Dibirov ) ******** 136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Roman Demurchiev) ******* 12th Guards Engineering Brigade (Central Military District, Colonel Sergei Porokhnya , formerly Colonel Denis Kozlov ) ******* 12th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment ******* 29th Railway Brigade ***** Airborne Forces ******

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Alexander Bobrov ) ******* Mine Sweepers ******** ''Ivan Golubets'' (Project 266M minesweeper) ******* Tugs ******** ''Vasily Bekh'' (Project 22870 rescue tug) ******** ''Vsevolod Bobrov'' (Project 23120 transport/tug) ****** Troops ******* 22nd Army Corps (Major General Arkady Marzoev, removed April 2022, chief of staff Major General Nasbulin ) ******** 126th Guards Coastal Defense Brigade (Colonel Sergey Storozhenko.) ******** 127th Reconnaissance Brigade ******* 40th Naval Infantry Brigade ******* 103rd Logistics Brigade (Colonel Mikhail Ponomarev, removed April 2022) ******* 177th Naval Infantry Regiment - from the Caspian Flotilla ******* 388th Marine Reconnaissance Unit, from the Black Sea Fleet ******* 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel Sergey Kens , formerly Colonel Alexei Sharov , Deputy Commander Colonel Aleksei Berngard) ****** Aviation ******* 2nd Guards Naval Aviation Division ******** 43rd Marine Assault Aviation Regiment ***** Aerospace Forces ******

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(Lieutenant General Nikolai Vasilyevich Gostev) ******* 1st Guards Composite Aviation Division (Major General Tagir Gadzhiyev) ********

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) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Khasanov ) ******** 559th Bomber Aviation Regiment (

) ******* 4th Composite Aviation Division ******** 960th Assault Aviation Regiment (

) ******* 27th Composite Aviation Division ******** 37th Composite Aviation Regiment (

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) ******** 38th Fighter Aviation Regiment (

) ******** 39th Helicopter Regiment (

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) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Igorevich Pakholsky ) ******* 55th Helicopter Regiment (

) ****** Long Range Aviation ******* 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Colonel Mykola Varpahovych) * (Supreme Commander-in-Chief: Head of the DPR

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) ** Donetsk People's Militia (Major General Denis Sinenkov) *** 1st Army Corps (Lieutenant General Roman Kutuzov ) (under command of 8th Combined Arms Army of Southern Military District) ****

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(Timur Kurilkin) **** 7th Motorised Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Vladimirovich Panasyura ) **** 100th Motor Rifle Brigade **** 103rd Motor Rifle Regiment **** 105th Motor Rifle Regiment **** 107th Motor Rifle Regiment **** 109th Motor Rifle Regiment **** 113rd Motor Rifle Regiment **** 115th Motor Rifle Regiment **** 123rd Motor Rifle Regiment **** 125th Motor Rifle Regiment **** 127th Motor Rifle Regiment * (Supreme Commander-in-Chief: Head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik') ** Luhansk People's Militia *** 2nd Army Corps (under command of 8th Combined Arms Army of Southern Military District) **** Prizrak Brigade (Yuri Shevchenko) **** Cossack battalions (Mikhail Kishchik , Deputy Chief of Staff Lt. Col. Alexander Kalnitsky ) **** 202nd Motor Rifle Regiment **** 204th Motor Rifle Regiment **** 208th Motor Rifle Regiment **** 254th Motor Rifle Regiment

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) **** Kraken Regiment (Commander: Konstantin V. Nemichev) ***

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) ***** ***** Ukrainian Armored Forces ***** Ukrainian Rocket and Artillery Forces (Commander: Colonel Andriy Kolennikov) ***** Ukrainian Mechanized Forces ***** Ukrainian Army Aviation **** Territorial Defense Forces (Commander of the Territorial Defense Forces: Major General Ihor Tantsyura) ****

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( Commander of the Air Force: Lieutenant General

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(Commander: Colonel Oleh Zahurskyi, Deputy commander: Colonel Ihor Bedzai ) ****

Ukrainian Air Assault Forces The Ukrainian Air Assault Forces (, or ), known until 2017 as the Ukrainian Airmobile Forces (, ), are the airborne forces of Ukraine. They formed in 1992 and were part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces until 2016, when they separated to become one o ...

(Commander of the Air Assault Forces: Major General ) ****

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(Commander of the Special Operations Forces: Brigadier General ) **** (MU А0135), Kyiv, (Commander of JOC: Lieutenant General

Serhiy Nayev Serhii Ivanovych Naiev ( uk, Наєв Сергій Іванович; born 30 April 1970) is the Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (since 27 March 2020), holding the rank of Lieutenant general from December 2016. Bio ...

) ***** (Commander of the JFO: Major-General Edouard Moskalyov) ****** Ukrainian Ground Forces *******

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(Commander: Major General Oleksandr Lokota) ******** 1st Tank Brigade (Commander: Colonel Ihor Shpak) ******** ******** 4th Tank Brigade ******** 26th Artillery Brigade (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Andranyk Hasparyan) ******** 27th Rocket Artillery Brigade ******** 30th Mechanized Brigade (Commander: Colonel Ihor Dovhan) ******** 58th Motorized Brigade ******** 72nd Mechanized Brigade (Commander: Colonel Ivan Vinnik) *******

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(Commander: Lieutenant General

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) ******** 10th Mountain Assault Brigade (Commander: Colonel ) ******** 14th Mechanized Brigade (Commander: Colonel Oleksandr Zhakun) ******** 24th Mechanized Brigade (Commander: Colonel Anatoly Shevchenko) ******** 44th Artillery Brigade ******** 53rd Mechanized Brigade ********* 24th Separate Assault Battalion ******** 128th Mountain Assault Brigade *******

Operational Command East Operational Command East (OC East) is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces in eastern Ukraine. Its headquarters is currently located in Dnipro. History When Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1992, there were three Sovie ...

(Commander: Lieutenant General Serhiy Nayev) ******** 17th Tank Brigade (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Tarnavskiy) ******** 54th Mechanized Brigade ******** 55th Artillery Brigade (Commander: Colonel Roman Kachur) ******** 92nd Mechanized Brigade (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Pavlo Fedosenko) ********* 22nd Motorized Infantry Battalion ******** 93rd Mechanized Brigade (Commander: Colonel Vladislav Klochkov) ******** 107th Rocket Artillery Brigade *******

Operational Command South The Operational Command South (OC South) is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces in the southern part of Ukraine, which was formed in January 1998 as the Southern Operation Command on the basis of the Odesa Military District and headquarter ...

(Commander: Major General Andriy Kovalchuk, Chief of Staff: Brigadier General Mykhailo Drapaty, Deputy commander: Brigadier General Andriy Hnatov) ******** 5th Tank Brigade ******** 28th Mechanized Brigade (Colonel Vitalii Huliaiev ) ********

40th Artillery Brigade The 40th Artillery Brigade is an artillery formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast, Pervomaisk. The unit was activated on 25 May 2015. On 23 August 2020, the Brigade was awarded the honorific "Lithuanian gran ...

******** 56th Motorized Brigade ******** 57th Motorized Brigade ******** 59th Motorized Brigade (Commander: Colonel Vadym Sukharevsky) ******** ******** ******* 'Kakhovka' operational group ******* ******* ******* 19th Missile Brigade (Commander: Colonel ) ******* 42nd Mechanized Brigade ******* 43rd Heavy Artillery Brigade ******* ******* 98th Infantry Battalion ******* 214th Rifle Battalion ******* Independent Formations ********

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(Commander: ) ********* Hospitallers Medical Battalion (Commander:

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(Commander: Dzianis Prokharau) ****** Ukrainian Territorial Defense forces ******* 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade ******* 107th Territorial Defense Brigade ******* 112th Territorial Defense Brigade ******* 113th Territorial Defense Brigade ******* 114th Territorial Defense Brigade ******* 115th Territorial Defense Brigade ******* ******* ******** 220th Battalion ******* ******* 130th Territorial Defense Battalion ******* 227th Territorial Defense Battalion *******

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(Commander: Colonel Ruslan Miroshnichenko) ******** Ichkerian Separate Special Purpose Battalion (Commander Hadzji-Murad Zumso, Deputy commander Khavazhi Amaev) ********

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Donbas The Donbas or Donbass (, ; uk, Донба́с ; russian: Донба́сс ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. Parts of the Donbas are controlled by Russian separatist groups as a result of the Russo-Ukrai ...

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25th Airborne Brigade The 25th Separate Airbone Sicheslav Brigade ( uk, 25-та окрема повітрянодесантна Січеславська бригада) is an airborne formation of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces. It is the only airborne unit of Ukrai ...

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Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine ( uk, Міністерство внутрішніх справ України, Ministerstvo vnutrishnikh sprav Ukrainy, MVS) is the ministry of the Ukrainian government that oversees the interior af ...

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Denys Monastyrsky Denys Anatoliiovych Monastyrsky ( uk, Денис Анатолійович Монастирський; born 12 June 1980) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician who has been Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs since 16 July 2021.State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine: ) ****

Ukrainian Sea Guard The Ukrainian Sea Guard ( uk, Морська охорона, Morska okhorona; full name uk, Морська охорона Державної прикордонної служби України, , Sea Guard of the State Border Guard Service of ...

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National Guard of Ukraine The National Guard of Ukraine (NGU; uk, Націона́льна гва́рдія Украї́ни, Natsionalna hvardiia Ukrainy, , ) is the Ukrainian national gendarmerie and Internal Troops, internal military force. It is part of the Minist ...

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Dnipro-1 Regiment The "Dnipro-1" Regiment ( uk, Полк «Дніпро-1») is a Special Tasks Patrol Police of Ukraine, Special Tasks Patrol Police regiment subordinated to Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The regiment is based in Dnipro. History The u ...

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National Police of Ukraine The National Police of Ukraine ( uk, Націона́льна полі́ція Украї́ни, translit=Natsionálʹna polítsiya Ukrayíny, ; , NPU), often simply referred to as the ( uk, Поліція, lit=Police, label=none), is the nation ...

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Rapid Operational Response Unit The Rapid Operational Response Unit, commonly abbreviated KORD, is a special purpose unit of the National Police of Ukraine. It is designed to respond to emergency situations, the level of which is so high and complex that it may exceed the capab ...

Security Service of Ukraine The Security Service of Ukraine ( uk, Служба безпеки України, translit=Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrainy}) or SBU ( uk, СБУ, link=no) is the law enforcement authority and main intelligence and security agency of the Ukrainian ...

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Head of the Security Service of Ukraine The Head of the Security Service of Ukraine ( uk, Голова Служби безпеки України) serves as the director of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the internal security agency of the Ukrainian government. The head of the Se ...

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Vasyl Malyuk Vasyl Vasylyovych Malyuk (Ukrainian: Василь Васильович Малюк; born 28 February 1983), is a Ukrainian political military officer and brigadier general, who has been the acting head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) sin ...

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Alpha Group Spetsgruppa "A", also known as Alpha Group (a popular English name), or Alfa, whose official name is Directorate "A" of the FSB Special Purpose Center (TsSN FSB) (Russian: Спецназ ФСБ "Альфа"), is an elite stand-alone sub-unit o ...

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Aerorozvidka Aerorozvidka ( uk, Аеророзвідка, "aerial reconnaissance") is a team and NGO that promotes creating and implementing netcentric and robotic military capabilities for the security and defense forces of Ukraine. Aerorozvidka exemplifies ...

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Yellow Ribbon The yellow ribbon is used for various purposes. It may be worn on a person, placed on a vehicle, around a tree, or for a neck tie. History and etymology Early Puritan history The song/poem ''"She wore a yellow ribbon"'' has appeared in variou ...

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Berdiansk Partisan Army Berdiansk Partisan Army (BPA; uk, Бердянська партизанська армія, Berdianska partyzanska armiia) is a Ukrainian resistance during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian underground partisan group operating in Be ...

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Russian and other forces

Initial groupings: February 2022

Leadership changes

Chain of command

Ukrainian forces

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