Vasundhra: Order of battle for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine [22 April 2022 ]

SOURCE:

(A) Order of Battle : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_battle_for_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

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 [22 April 2022 ]

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

Russian and allied forces[edit]

Groupings[edit]

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 Marine 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 Marine 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)
- Ministry of Defence (Minister of Defence: General of the Army Sergey Shoygu)
  - Russian General Staff (Chief of the General Staff and First Deputy Minister of Defence: General of the Army Valery Gerasimov)
    - Russian Armed Forces (Commander of Russian forces in Ukraine and Commander of the Southern Military District: General of the Army Aleksandr Dvornikov)^[2]
      - Russian Ground Forces (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces: General of the Army Oleg Salyukov)
        1st Guards Tank Army (Lieutenant General Sergey Aleksandrovich Kisel [dismissed]; unnamed deputy commander [dismissed])^[3]^{[full citation needed]}
        45th Guards Engineering Brigade (Western Military District, Colonel Nikolai Ovcharenko †)^[4]
        4th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Yevgeny Nikolayevich Zhuravlyov)
        423rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment^[5]
        13th Tank Regiment^[6]
        47th Guards Tank Division^[7]
        26th Tank Regiment ^[8]
        2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Andriy Smirnov – seriously wounded)^[9]
        1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Denis Mezhuyev †)^[10]
        15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Colonel Kharitonov – seriously wounded)^[11]
        96th Reconnaissance Brigade^[12]
        49th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Colonel Grishin Ivan†))^[13]
        2nd Guards Combined Arms Army (Major General Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Gurov)
        15th Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Sergeevich Marushkin)^[14]
        21st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Dmitri Zavyalov)^[15]
        5th Combined Arms Army (Major General Aleksey Podivilov)
        60th Motorised Rifle Brigade^[16]
        6th Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Vladislav Nikolayevich Yershov [dismissed & arrested])^[17]
        138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Sergei Maksimov)^[18]
        8th Guards Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Andrey Nikolayevich Mordvichev,^[19] Major General Vladimir Petrovich Frolov, Deputy Commander †)^[20]
        20th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Aleksei Gorobets)^[21]
        33rd Motor Rifle Regiment^[22]
        255th Motor Rifle Regiment ^[23]
        150th Motor Rifle Division (Major General Oleg Mityaev †)^[24] ^[25]
        163rd Guards Tank Regiment ^[26]
        20th Guards Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Andrey Sergeevich Ivanaev)
        448th Rocket Brigade (Colonel Dmitri Nikolaevich Martynov)^[27]
        3rd Motor Rifle Division (Major General Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Avdeyev)^[28]
        237th Tank Regiment^[29]
        752nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment^[30]
        144th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Major General Vitaly Sleptsov) ^[31]
        29th Combined Arms Army (Major General Andrei Borisovich Kolesnikov †)^[32]
        36th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel (Guards) Andrei Vladimirovich Voronkov)^[33]
        35th Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Aleksandr Semyonovich Sanchik, Deputy Commander Major General Sergei Nyrkov [wounded, not returning to active duty]^[34])
        38th Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Andrey Borisovich Kurbanov)^[35]
        64th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade^[36] (Lt. Colonel Azatbek Asanbekovich Omurbekov, allegedly responsible for the Bucha massacre^[37])
        165th Artillery Brigade^[38]
        36th Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Valery Solodchuk^{[citation needed]}, Deputy Commander Major General Andrei Anatolyevich Seritskiy, seriously wounded^[39])
        5th Guards Tank Brigade^[40]
        37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Yuri Medvedev †)^[41]
        41st Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Sergey Ryzhkov [ru], Deputy Commander Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky †)
        35th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade^[42]
        74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Alekseyevich Yershov)^[43]
        90th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Ramil Rakhmatulovich Ibatullin)
        6th Tank Regiment^[44]
        49th Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev †) ^[45]
        58th Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Mikhail Stepanovich Zusko [dismissed and arrested])
        35th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade^[46]
        19th Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Dmitri Ivanovich Uskov)
        503rd Motor Rifle Regiment^[47]
        42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division^[48]
        70th Motor Rifle Regiment^[49]
        71st Motor Rifle Regiment^[49]
        291st Motor Rifle Regiment^[49]
        136th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade^[50]
        14th Army Corps (Lieutenant General Dmitry Vladimirovich Krayev)
        200th Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Denis Yuryevich Kurilo †)^[51]^[52]
        22nd Army Corps (Major General Denis Lyamin)
        126th Guards Coastal Defense Brigade (Colonel Sergey Storozhenko)^[53]
        12th Guards Engineering Brigade (Central Military District, Colonel Sergei Porokhnya †)^[54]
      - Special Operation Forces (SSO) (Major General Valery Flyustikov)^[55]
      - Russian Navy (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy: Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov)
        Black Sea Fleet (Admiral Igor Osipov [arrested], Deputy Commander First Rank Captain Andrei Paliy †)
        Moskva (sunk) (Captain 1st Rank Anton Kuprin)^[56]
        Vasily Bykov^[57]
        Saratov (sunk)^[58]
        Caesar Kunikov (damaged) (Captain 3rd rank Aleksandr Chirva †)^[59]
        Northern Fleet (Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev)^[51]
        Russian Coastal Troops
        Russian Naval Infantry (Lieutenant General Alexander Kolpachenko)
        126th Naval Infantry Brigade^[60]
        61st Naval Infantry Brigade (Northern Fleet, Colonel Kirill Nikolaevich Nikulin)^[61]
        155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Pacific Fleet)^[53]
        336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Baltic Fleet, Colonel (Guards) Igor N. Kalmykov)^[62]
        810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Black Sea Fleet, Colonel Aleksei Nikolaevich Sharov †, Deputy Commander Colonel Aleksei Berngard)^[63]
      - Russian Aerospace Forces (Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces: General of the Army Sergey Surovikin)
        Russian Air Force (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force: Lieutenant General Sergey Dronov)
        4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Lieutenant General Nikolai Vasilyevich Gostev)
        31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment^[64]
      - Russian Airborne Forces (Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces: Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov)^[65]
        7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division^[66]
        56th Guards Air Assault Regiment^[67]
        98th Guards Airborne Division (Guards Colonel Viktor Igoryevich Gunaza [dismissed by end of March])^[68]
        76th Guards Air Assault Division (Major General Sergey Chubarykin, in April 2022 replaced by Guards Colonel Denis Shishov^[69])
        104th Guards Air Assault Regiment^[67]
        234th Guards Air Assault Regiment^[67]
        106th Guards Airborne Division (Guards Colonel Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Selivyorstov)^[70]
        51st Guards Airborne Regiment^[71]
        137th Airborne Regiment^[72]
        11th Guards Air Assault Brigade (Colonel Denis Shishov [until April^[73]], Deputy Commander Lt. Col. Denis Viktorovich Glebov †)^[74]
        31st Guards Air Assault Brigade^[75]
        83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade (Deputy Commander Guards Lieutenant-Colonel Vitaliy Slabtsov †)^[76]
        45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Vadim Pankov)^[77]
    - GRU (Director: Admiral Igor Kostyukov)^[78]
      - Spetsnaz GRU^[79]
        2nd Spetsnaz Brigade^[80]
        14th Spetsnaz Brigade^[81]
        22nd Spetsnaz Brigade^[80]
- Security Council
  - National Guard of Russia (General of the Army Viktor Zolotov; Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Roman Gavrilov [dismissed and arrested])^[82]
    - Kadyrovites (Head: Ramzan Kadyrov)
      - 141th Motorised National Guard Brigade^[83]
      - North Battalion^[84]
    - OMON^[85]
    - SOBR^[86]
- Federal Security Service (General of the Army Alexander Bortnikov)^[87]
- Mercenaries
  - Wagner Group (Leader: Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Utkin)^[88]