Order of Battle for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine ( ORBAT ) AS ON 20 MAY 2022

 SOURCE:  (A) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_battle_for_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine 

(B) 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

(C)  Categories:   (I)  2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (II) Orders of battle

INDEX ORBAT  ( PROGRESSIVE AS PER  PERIODIC CHANGES ) 

(e) 20 MAY 2022 :  https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2022/05/order-of-battle-for-2022-russian.html

(d ) 22 April 2022 : https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2022/05/order-of-battle-for-2022-russian_20.html

( c )  28  MAR 2022 : https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2022/03/section-2-c-order-of-battle-for-2022.html

(b) 23  MAR 2022 :   https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2022/03/section-2-revised-23-mar-2022-orbat.html

(a) 22 FEB 2022:  https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2022/03/orbat-order-of-battle-for-2022-russian.html

Order of Battle for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine(ORBAT) 20 MAY, 2022 

 

For a chronological order of battles, see      List of military engagements during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This is the order of battle for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Contents

• 1Russian and allied forces
  • 1.1Groupings
  • 1.2Chain of command
• 2Ukrainian forces
• 3See also
• 4References

Russian and Allied Forces

Groupings

Ukrainian military commentator Yuri Butusov has presented the following initial deployment of the Russian forces:^[1]

Southwestern Belarus grouping (blocking contingent against Ukrainian forces in Western Ukraine):

• centered 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):

• centered 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):

• centered 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 (Sumi offensive direction):

• centered 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):

• centered 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)

• centered 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)

• centered around Rostov-on-the-Don and Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy
• including forces from the 8th Combined Arms Army, estimated strength of 6 Battalion Tactical Groups
• official Ukrainian government sources claim that the 8th CAA has operational control over the Donetsk People's Militia and the Luhansk People's Militia and list them accordingly as the Russian 1st and 2nd Army Corps

Crimea grouping (Southern Ukraine offensive direction):

• centered 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)

• centered 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

Chain of command[edit]

•  Russia (President of the Russian Federation: Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin)
  • Security Council
    • Rosgvardiya (General of the Army Viktor Zolotov; Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Roman Gavrilov [dismissed and arrested])^[2]
      • Kadyrovites (Head: Ramzan Kadyrov)
        • 141st Motorised National Guard Brigade^[3]
        • North Battalion^[4]
      • OMON^[5]
      • SOBR^[6]
  • Federal Security Service (General of the Army Alexander Bortnikov)^[7]
    • Russian Border Service (Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service and Head of the Border Service: Vladimir Kulishov)^[8]
  • Mercenaries
    • Wagner Group (Leader: Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Utkin)^[9]
      • Rusich Company^[10]
      • Arab and African mercenaries^[11]
  • Ministry of Defence (Minister of Defence: General of the Army Sergey Shoygu) (Commanders of the various armed services and branches do not have operational control over the forces. They are responsible for force development and generation. The Chiefs of the ground forces, the aerospace forces, the navy, the strategic missile forces and the airborne forces also hold the appointments of Deputy Ministers of Defence, junior to the Chief of the General Staff, who is the First Deputy Minister of Defence.)
    • Russian General Staff (Chief of the General Staff and First Deputy Minister of Defence: General of the Army Valery Gerasimov - wounded)^[12]
    • National Defense Management Center (Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev) (The General Staff executes strategic command and control of the forces through the NDMC. Operational control of the forces is carried out by the five Operational-Strategic Commands^[13] - the Western, Southern, Central and Eastern Military Districts and the OSC Northern Fleet, which is their equal. The Western and the Southern Military Districts share borders with Ukraine and are directly involved in the command and control of the operations. Forces from the Central and Eastern MD and the OSC NF and from other branches (Airborne Forces, Long Range Aviation, National Guard) are operationally transferred to the former two.)^[14]
      • GRU (Director: Admiral Igor Kostyukov)^[15]
        • 8th Directorate - Directorate Spetsnaz (Spetsnaz GRU)^[16]
          • 2nd Separate Brigade Spetsnaz^[17]
          • 3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade ^[18]
          • 14th Separate Guards Brigade Spetsnaz ^[19][20]
          • 22nd Separate Guards Brigade Spetsnaz^[17]
          • 346th Spetsnaz Brigade ^[21]
      • Special Operation Forces (SSO) (Major General Valery Flyustikov)^[22]
    • Russian Ground Forces (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces and Deputy Minister of Defence: General of the Army Oleg Salyukov)
      • Russian Engineer Troops (Lieutenant General Yuri Stavitsky)
      • Russian Missile Troops and Artillery (Lieutenant-General Mikhail Matveyevsky)
      • Russian Tank Troops
      • Russian Air Defence Troops
      • Army Aviation component
    • Russian Aerospace Forces (Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces and Deputy Minister of Defence: General of the Army Sergey Surovikin)
      • Russian Air Force (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces: Lieutenant General Sergey Dronov)
    • Russian Airborne Forces (Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces: Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov)^[23]
    • Russian Navy (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy and Deputy Minister of Defence: Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov)
      • Russian Coastal Troops (Lieutenant General Viktor Astapov)
        • Russian Naval Infantry (Lieutenant General Alexander Kolpachenko)
    • Russian Armed Forces (Commander of Russian forces in Ukraine: General of the Army Aleksandr Dvornikov)^[24]
      • Western Military District (Commander: Colonel General Alexander Zhuravlyov)
        • Ground Forces
          • 1st Guards Tank Army, WMD (Lieutenant General Sergey Aleksandrovich Kisel [dismissed]; unnamed deputy commander [dismissed])^[25] [26]
            • 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Andriy Smirnov – seriously wounded)^[27]
              • 1st Guards Tank Regiment^[28]
              • 1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Denis Mezhuyev †)^[29]
              • 15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Colonel Kharitonov – seriously wounded)^[27]
            • 4th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Yevgeny Nikolayevich Zhuravlyov) ^[30]
              • 12th Guards Tank Regiment^[31] (S. I. Safonov)
              • 13th Guards Tank Regiment^[26][32]
              • 423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle Regiment^[33]
            • 45th Separate Guards Engineer Brigade (Colonel Nikolai Ovcharenko †)^[34]
            • 47th Guards Tank Division^[35]
              • 26th Tank Regiment^[36]
            • 49th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Colonel Ivan Grishin †))^[37]
            • 96th Reconnaissance Brigade^[38]
            • 6th Engineer Regiment (Colonel Mikhail Aleksandrovich Nagamov †) ^[39]
          • 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, CMD (Major General Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Gurov)
            • 15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Sergeevich Marushkin)^[40] [41]
            • 21st Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Dmitri Zavyalov)^[42]
            • 30th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade^[43][44]
          • 201st Military Base, CMD (original location Tajikistan) - on April 13, the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced the destruction of a 201 MB battalion-tactical group.^[45]
          • 5th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Major General Aleksey Podivilov)
            • 57th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
            • 60th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade^[46]
            • 127th Motor Rifle Division^[47]
              • 218th Tank Regiment^[48]
              • 394th Motorized Rifle Regiment^[49]
          • 6th Combined Arms Army, WMD (Lieutenant General Vladislav Nikolayevich Yershov [dismissed & arrested])^[50]
            • 25th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
            • 138th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Sergei Maksimov)^[51][52]
          • 20th Guards Combined Arms Army, WMD (Lieutenant General Andrey Sergeevich Ivanaev)
            • 448th Rocket Brigade (Colonel Dmitri Nikolaevich Martynov)^[53]
            • 3rd Motor Rifle Division (Major General Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Avdeyev)^[54]
              • 237th Tank Regiment^[55]
              • 752nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment^[56]
            • 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Major General Vitaly Sleptsov) ^[57]
              • 59th Tank Regiment (Colonel Alexander Bespalov†)^[58] [59]
              • 254th Motorised Rifle Regiment (Colonel I.A. Danshin)^[60]
          • 29th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Major General Andrei Borisovich Kolesnikov †) ^[61]
            • 36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel (Guards) Andrei Vladimirovich Voronkov)^[62]
          • 35th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Lieutenant General Aleksandr Semyonovich Sanchik, Deputy Commander Major General Sergei Nyrkov [wounded, not returning to active duty])^[63]
            • 38th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Andrey Borisovich Kurbanov)^[64]
            • 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Azatbek Asanbekovich Omurbekov, allegedly responsible for the Bucha massacre)^[65][20]
            • 165th Artillery Brigade^[66]
          • 36th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Lieutenant General Valery Solodchuk^{[citation needed]}, Deputy Commander Major General Andrei Anatolyevich Seritskiy, seriously wounded^[67])
            • 5th Separate Guards Tank Brigade^[68][20]
            • 37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Yuri Medvedev †)^[69]
          • 41st Combined Arms Army, CMD (Lieutenant General Sergey Ryzhkov [ru], Deputy Commander Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky †) ^[61]
            • 35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (depleted at failed Donets River crossing at Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast) ^[70] [71]
            • 55th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade^[72]
            • 74th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Alekseyevich Yershov) (seriously depleted at failed Donets River crossing at Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast) ^{[73][74] [75]}
            • 90th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Ramil Rakhmatulovich Ibatullin) ^[76]
              • 6th Tank Regiment (Colonel Andrei Zakharov †) ^[77] [78]
              • 239th Guards Tank Regiment - fought in Battle of Brovary, 9-10 March 2022.^[79]
          • 68th Army Corps, EMD
            • 39th Separate Red Banner Motor Rifle Brigade^[80]
        • Naval Forces
          • Baltic Fleet
            • 336th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel (Guards) Igor N. Kalmykov)^[81]
          • Northern Fleet
            • 61st Separate Red Banner Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel Kirill Nikolaevich Nikulin)^[82]
          • 14th Army Corps
            • 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, (Colonel Denis Yuryevich Kurilo †)^[83] [26]
          • Pacific Fleet
            • 155th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade ()^[84][20]
      • Airborne Forces
        • 98th Guards Airborne Division (Guards Colonel Viktor Igoryevich Gunaza [dismissed by end of March])^[85]
          • 217th Guards Airborne Regiment ^[86] [87]
          • 331st Guards Airborne Regiment (Colonel Sergei Sukharev †)^[88][20]
          • 76th Guards Air Assault Division (Major General Sergey Chubarykin, in April 2022 replaced by Guards Colonel Denis Shishov)
            • 104th Guards Air Assault Regiment^[89][20]
            • 234th Guards Air Assault Regiment^[89][20]
          • 106th Guards Airborne Division (Guards Colonel Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Selivyorstov, the 106th Airborne Division was pointed out both as one of the formations involved in alleged war crimes in the outskirts of Kiyv, as well as taking part in the fighting near Izyum)^[90]
            • 51st Guards Airborne Regiment^[91]
            • 137th Guards Airborne Regiment^[91][20]
          • 31st Separate Guards Air Assault Brigade(Colonel Sergei Karasev)
          • 83rd Separate Guards Air Assault Brigade (Deputy Commander Guards Lieutenant-Colonel Vitaliy Slabtsov †)^[92]
        • 45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Vadim Pankov) ^[20][93]†)^[94]
      • Aerospace Forces
        • 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
          • 32nd Air Defence Division ^[95]
          • 105th Guards Composite Aviation Division
            • 47th Composite Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-34) ^[96]
        • 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
          • 303rd Composite Aviation Division
            • 18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-25) ^[97]
            • 277th Bomber Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-34) ^[98]
            • 112th Separate Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-24) ^[99]
            • 319th Separate Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-24) ^[100][101]
        • 105th Guards Composite Aviation Division
          • 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-35) ^[102][103]
          • 790th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-35) ^[104]
          • 332nd Independent Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-24)
      • Southern Military District (Commander: General of the Army Aleksandr Dvornikov)
        • Ground Forces
          • 8th Guards Combined Arms Army, SMD (Lieutenant General Andrey Nikolayevich Mordvichev †,^[105] [61] Major General Vladimir Petrovich Frolov, Deputy Commander †)^[106]
            • 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Aleksei Gorobets)^[107]
              • 33rd Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Agarkov †) ^[108] [109]
              • 255th Motor Rifle Regiment ^[110]
            • 150th Motor Rifle Division (Major General Oleg Mityaev †)^[111]
              • 68th Guards Tank Regiment^[112]
              • 163rd Guards Tank Regiment ^[113]
          • 49th Combined Arms Army, SMD (Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev †) ^[114]
            • 34th Separate Motor Rifle (Mountain) Brigade ^[115]
            • 205th Separate Motor Rifle Cossack Brigade^[116]
          • 58th Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Mikhail Stepanovich Zusko [dismissed and arrested])^{[citation needed]}
            • 19th Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Dmitri Ivanovich Uskov)
              • 429th Motor Rifle Regiment ^[117]
              • 503rd Motor Rifle Regiment ^[118]
            • 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division^[119]
              • 70th Motor Rifle Regiment^[120] [121]
              • 71st Motor Rifle Regiment^[120]
              • 291st Motor Rifle Regiment^[120] [122]
            • 136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Roman Demurchiev) ^[123] [124]
          • 12th Separate Guards Engineering Brigade (Central Military District, Colonel Sergei Porokhnya †)^[125] (Colonel Denis Kozlov †) ^[126]
          • 439th Independent Guards Reactive Artillery Brigade ^[127] [128]
        • Airborne Forces
          • 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division, reported as the command element of the Russian task force fighting in the Kherson Oblast on the Mykolaiv direction^{[129][130][131]}
          • 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment^[89]
            • 108th Guards Air Assault Regiment^[132]
            • 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment (Colonel Konstantin Zizievsky †)^{[133][134] [61]}
          • 11th Separate Guards Air Assault Brigade (Colonel Denis Shishov [until April], Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Denis Viktorovich Glebov †)^[135]
        • Aerospace Forces
          • 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Lieutenant General Nikolai Vasilyevich Gostev)
            • 1st Guards Composite Aviation Division
              • 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-30)^[136]
              • 559th Bomber Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-34)^[137] [138]
            • 4th Composite Aviation Division
              • 960th Assault Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-25)^[139]
            • 51st Air Defence Division
              • 55th Independent Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-24) ^[140]
              • 487th Independent Helicopter Regiment (formed February 1989)^[141]
          • 37th Air Army
            • 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division ^[142]
              • 121st Heavy Bomber Air Regiment (Tupolev Tu-160)^[143]
        • Naval Forces
          • Black Sea Fleet (Admiral Igor Osipov [arrested and suspended],^[144] Deputy Commander First Rank Captain Andrei Paliy †)
            • Moskva (sunk) (Captain 1st Rank Anton Kuprin [allegedly KIA])^[145]
            • Vasily Bykov^[146]
            • Saratov (sunk)^[147]
            • Caesar Kunikov (damaged) (Captain 3rd rank Aleksandr Chirva †)^[148]
            • Raptor-class patrol boat (2 x sunk - 1 damaged) ^[149] [150]
            • Admiral Makarov ^[151] [152]
            • Serna-class landing craft (2 x sunk) ^[153] [150]
            • Vsevolod Bobrov (Project 23120-class transport/tug) (damaged) ^[154]
            • 40th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade ^[155]
            • 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel Alexei Sharov [ja; pl; uk] †, Deputy Commander Colonel Aleksei Berngard)^[156] [61] According to a Ukrainian newspaper report of April 12, 2022, military expert Oleg Zhdanov said the brigade had suffered extremely heavy losses in the Siege of Mariupol, to the extent of being "destroyed twice."^[157]
          • Deployed from the Caspian Flotilla
            • 177th Separate Naval Infantry Regiment^[158]
          • 22nd Army Corps - as of 23 April 2022, according to official Ukrainian sources, Major General Arkady Marzoev, the corps commander, was removed from his post.^[159]
            • 126th Separate Guards Coastal Defense Brigade (Colonel Sergey Storozhenko, On April 19, 2022, a report was released by Ukraine's general staff which stated that the brigade has suffered a 75 percent loss in the ongoing conflict.)^[84][160]
            • 127th Separate Reconnaissance Brigade^[161]

•  Donetsk People's Republic (Supreme Commander-in-Chief: Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin)
  • Donetsk People's Militia (Major General Denis Sinenkov)
    • Sparta Battalion (Sergey Agranovich †)^[162]
    • Somalia Battalion (Timur Kurilkin)^[163]

•  Luhansk People's Republic (Supreme Commander-in-Chief: Head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik)
  • Luhansk People's Militia (Colonel Yan Leshchenko)
    • Prizrak Brigade (Yuri Shevchenko)^[164]
    • Cossack battalions (Mikhail Kishchik †)^[165]

Ukrainian Forces

•  Ukraine (President: Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine [uk] Volodymyr Zelenskyy)
  • Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (Minister of Defence Oleksii Reznikov)
    • Chief Directorate of Intelligence (Brigadier General Kyrylo Budanov)^[166]
    • Ukrainian Armed Forces (Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces: General Valerii Zaluzhnyi) (Commanders of the three armed services hold no operational authority. They are subordinated to the Commander-in-Chief.)
      • Special Operations Forces (Major General Hryhoriy Halahan [uk])^[167]
      • Ukrainian General Staff (Chief of the General Staff: Lieutenant General Serhiy Shaptala)
        • 101st Brigade for the Protection of the General Staff (Colonel Mykola Shvets)^[168]
      • Ukrainian Ground Forces (Commander of the Ground Forces: Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi)
        • Ukrainian Armored Forces
        • Ukrainian Rocket and Artillery Forces (Colonel Andriy Kolennikov)
        • Ukrainian Mechanized Forces
        • Ukrainian Army Aviation
      • Ukrainian Air Force (Commander of the Air Force: Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk)
      • Ukrainian Navy (Commander of the Naval Forces: Vice Admiral Oleksiy Neizhpapa)
        • Ukrainian Naval Aviation (Colonel Oleh Zahurskyi, Deputy Commander Colonel Ihor Bedzai †) ^[169]
      • Ukrainian Air Assault Forces (Commander of the Air Assault Forces: Major General Yevhen Moisiuk)
      • Territorial Defense Forces (Brigadier General Yuriy Halushkin replaced 15th May 2022 by Major General Ihor Tantsiura)^[170]
      • Joint Forces Command of the UAF (MU А0135), Kyiv, (Commander of JFC: Lieutenant General Serhiy Nayev [uk]) (According to the Law "On The National Security of Ukraine", the commanders of the armed services and separate combat arms generate the combat units and give over operational control over them to the Commander of the Joint Forces (Article 16, Paragraphs 5 and 6).
        • Joint Forces Operation (commands the armed forces and security forces contingents facing the Russian-controlled Donbass separatist forces, successor to the previous Anti-Terror Operation (ATO)) (Commander of the JFO: Major-General Edouard Moskalyov)
          • Ukrainian Ground Forces
            • Aerorozvidka (Lieutenant Colonel Yaroslav Honchar)^[171]
            • 1st Tank Brigade (Colonel Ihor Shpak)^{[172][173][174]}
            • 3rd Tank Brigade^[175]
            • 5th Tank Brigade^[176]
            • 17th Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Tarnavskiy)^[176]
            • 10th Mountain Assault Brigade (Colonel Vasyl Zubanych)^[177]
            • 14th Mechanized Brigade (Colonel Oleksandr Okhrimenko)^[178]
            • 19th Missile Brigade^[179]
            • 24th Mechanized Brigade (Colonel Anatoly Shevchenko)^[180]
            • 26th Artillery Brigade^[181]
            • 27th Rocket Artillery Brigade^[182]
            • 28th Mechanized Brigade (Colonel Ihor Oliynyk)^[183]
            • 30th Mechanized Brigade (Colonel Ihor Dovhan)^[184]
            • 44th Artillery Brigade^[185]
            • 45th Artillery Brigade^[186]
            • 53rd Mechanized Brigade^[187]
            • 54th Mechanized Brigade^[188]
            • 55th Artillery Brigade (Colonel Roman Kachur)^[189]
            • 56th Motorized Brigade^[190]
            • 57th Motorized Brigade^[191]
            • 59th Motorized Brigade^[192]
            • 60th Infantry Brigade^[193]
            • 72nd Mechanized Brigade (Colonel Oleksandr Vdovychenko)^[79]
            • 92nd Mechanized Brigade (Colonel Pavlo Fedosenko)^[194]
            • 93rd Mechanized Brigade ^[195]
            • 128th Mountain Assault Brigade^[196]
            • Foreign Volunteers
              • Georgian Legion (Mamuka Mamulashvili)^[197]
              • Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion (Adam Osmayev)^[198]
              • Sheikh Mansur Battalion (Muslim Cheberloyevsky)^[199]
              • Kastuś Kalinoŭski Battalion ("Juryj" (nom de guerre))^[200]
          • Ukrainian Navy forces:
            • Sloviansk (sunk)^[201]
            • Donbas (sunk)^[202]
            • Stanislav (sunk) ^[203]
            • Pereyaslav (damaged)^[204]
            • Ukrainian Naval Infantry (Lieutenant General Yuriy Sodol)
              • 36th Separate Marine Brigade (Colonel Volodymyr Baranyuk (POW)^[205], Major Volynskyi Serhiy Yaroslavovych [uk]^[206]
            • Ukrainian Naval Aviation Forces:
              • 10th Naval Aviation Brigade [uk] (Colonel Ilya Oleynikov)^[207]
          • Ukrainian Air Force operational forces:
            • 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Colonel Volodymyr Kravchenko)^[208]
            • 114th Tactical Aviation Brigade^[209]
            • 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Andriy Yastrebov)^[210]
          • Ukrainian Air Assault Forces:
            • 25th Airborne Brigade (Colonel Yuriy Sodol)^[211]
            • 46th Air Assault Brigade^[212]
            • 79th Air Assault Brigade (Colonel Oleksiy Shandr)^[213]
            • 80th Air Assault Brigade (Colonel Volodymyr Shvorak)^[214]
            • 81st Airmobile Brigade (Colonel Yevhen Moysyuk)^[215]
            • 95th Air Assault Brigade (Colonel Oleh Hut)^[216]
          • Territorial defense forces
            • 112th Territorial Defence Brigade
              • 130th Territorial Battalion^[217]
            • 122nd Territorial Defence Brigade^[218]
            • 126th Territorial Defence Brigade^[219]
            • 127th Territorial Defence Brigade
              • 227th Territorial Battalion^[220]
            • Ukrainian far-left miltias^[221][222]
            • International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine^[223]
              • Freedom of Russia Legion^[224]
              • Pahonia Regiment^[225][226]
              • Norman Brigade^[227]
              • Canadian-Ukrainian Brigade^[228]
  • State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (Serhiy Deyneko)^[229]
    • Ukrainian Sea Guard^[230]
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky)
    • State Emergency Service of Ukraine^[231]
    • National Guard of Ukraine (Lieutenant General Yuriy Lebid) (According to the Law "On The National Guard of Ukraine" ("Про Національну гвардію України") Article 6, paragraph 3: "With the enactment of a state of martial law, the National Guard of Ukraine shall be prepared to perform its assigned tasks and shall be subordinated to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, except for the military units tasked with escorting and guarding people under arrest and those military units guarding diplomatic missions.")^[232]
      • 4th Rapid Reaction Brigade^[233]
      • 12th Operational Brigade [ru; uk]^[234]
      • 23rd Separate Brigade of Public Order Protection [uk]^[235]
      • Azov Special Operations Detachment (Commander: Denys Prokopenko)^[236][237]
    • National Police of Ukraine (Police General 2nd Rank Ihor Klymenko)^[238]
      • Special Tasks Patrol Police^[239]
        • Kyiv-1 Police Battalion^[240][241]
  • Security Service of Ukraine (Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov)
    • Alpha Group^[242][243]
  • Ukrainian volunteer militias (Irregular civilian volunteers)^[244]
    • Right Sector^[245]
      • Ukrainian Volunteer Army
        • Ukrainian Volunteer Corps^[246]
          • 2nd Separate Battalion (Taras Bobanych †)^[246]
          • Hospitallers Medical Battalion (Yana Zinkevych)^[247]

See also[edit]

• Army ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation
• List of Russian generals killed during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
• List of Russo-Ukrainian conflict military equipment
• List of equipment used by Russian separatist forces of the war in Donbas
• List of equipment of the Ukrainian Ground Forces
• List of equipment of the Russian Ground Forces

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