SOURCE: (A) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_battle_for_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
( B ) ORBITS WORLD BATTLES : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: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
SECTION 2 [B]
ORDER OF BATTLE FOR 2022
RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE AS ON
23 MAR 2022 ( From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )
This is the Revised 23 MAR 2022 order of battle for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
ORBAT
Russian and Allied Forces[edit]
- Russia (Commander-in-Chief: President Vladimir Putin)
- Ministry of Defence (General of the Army Sergey Shoygu)
- Russian General Staff
- Russian Armed Forces (General of the Army Valery Gerasimov)
- Russian Ground Forces (General of the Army Oleg Salyukov)
- 1st Guards Tank Army (Lieutenant General Sergei Kisel)
- 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division (Colonel (Guards) Sergey Viktorovich Medvedev)
- 4th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Yevgeny Nikolayevich Zhuravlyov)
- 47th Guards Tank Division
- 26th Tank Regiment[4]
- 27th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Sergey Igorevich Safonov)[5]
- 96th Reconnaissance Brigade (Colonel Valery Vdovichenko)[4]
- 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Andrey Vladimirovich Kolotovkin)
- 15th Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Sergeevich Marushkin)[4]
- 21st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade[6]
- 30th Motor Rifle Brigade[7]
- 5th Combined Arms Army (Major General Aleksey Podivilov )
- 6th Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Vladislav Nikolayevich Yershov)
- 25th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Andrei Nikolaevich Arkhipov)[6]
- 138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Sergei Maksimov)[10]
- 8th Guards Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Andrey Nikolayevich Mordvichev †)
- 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Aleksei Gorobets)
- 150th Motor Rifle Division (Major General Oleg Mityaev †)
- 102nd Motorized Rifle Regiment[4]
- 20th Guards Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Andrey Sergeevich Ivanaev)
- 3rd Motor Rifle Division (Major General Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Avdeyev)
- 252nd Motor Rifle Regiment (Colonel Igor Nikolaev †)[13]
- 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Major General Vitaly Sleptsov)[14]
- 488th Motor Rifle Regiment (Colonel Vladimir Nikolaevich Koralo)
- 3rd Motor Rifle Division (Major General Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Avdeyev)
- 29th Combined Arms Army (Major General Andrei Borisovich Kolesnikov †)
- 36th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel (Guards) Andrei Vladimirovich Voronkov)[15]
- 200th Artillery Brigade[16]
- 35th Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Aleksandr Semyonovich Sanchik)
- 38th Motor Rifle Brigade[8]
- 64th Motor Rifle Brigade[17]
- 69th Fortress Brigade[8]
- 107th Rocket Brigade[8]
- 165th Artillery Brigade [8]
- 36th Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Valery Solodchuk)
- 41st Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Sergey Ryzhkov , Deputy Commander Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky †)
- 35th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Major General Vitaly Gerasimov †)[18][19]
- 55th Mountain Motorized Rifle Brigade[20]
- 74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Alekseyevich Yershov)[21][22]
- 120th Artillery Brigade[18][23]
- 119th Missile Brigade[18]
- 90th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Ramil Rakhmatulovich Ibatullin)
- 49th Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Jakov Vladimirovich Rezantsev)
- 58th Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Mikhail Stepanovich Zusko)
- 19th Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Dmitri Ivanovich Uskov)[1]
- 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division[6]
- 291th Artillery Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Mikhailovich Tikhonov)[12]
- 14th Army Corps (Lieutenant General Dmitry Vladimirovich Krayev)
- 200th Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Denis Yuryevich Kurilo)[27][28]
- 22nd Army Corps (Major General Denis Lyamin)
- 12th Separate Guards Engineering Brigade (Central Military District, Colonel Sergei Porokhnya †)[30]
- 45th Separate Guards Engineering Brigade (Western Military District, Colonel Nikolai Ovcharenko †)[30]
- 439th Separate Guards Reactive Artillery Brigade (Southern Military District)[12]
- 1st Guards Tank Army (Lieutenant General Sergei Kisel)
- Special Operation Forces (SSO) (Major General Valery Flyustikov)[31]
- Russian Navy (Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov)
- Black Sea Fleet (Admiral Igor Osipov, Deputy Commander First Rank Captain Andrei Paliy †)
- Northern Fleet (Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev)[27]
- Russian Coastal Troops
- Russian Naval Infantry (Lieutenant General Alexander Kolpachenko)
- 40th Naval Infantry Brigade (Pacific Fleet, Colonel Dmitri Ivanovich Petukh)[36]
- 61st Naval Infantry Brigade (Northern Fleet, Colonel Kirill Nikolaevich Nikulin)[37]
- 155th Naval Infantry Brigade (Pacific Fleet)[36]
- 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Baltic Fleet, Colonel (Guards) Igor N. Kalmykov)[38]
- 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade[7] (Black Sea Fleet, Colonel Aleksei Nikolaevich Sharov †, Deputy Commander Colonel Aleksei Berngard)
- Russian Naval Infantry (Lieutenant General Alexander Kolpachenko)
- Russian Aerospace Forces (General of the Army Sergey Surovikin)
- Russian Air Force (Lieutenant General Sergey Dronov)
- 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Lieutenant General Nikolai Vasilyevich Gostev)
- 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Lieutenant General Vladimir Kravchenko)
- 23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment[9]
- 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment[39]
- 18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment[4]
- 120th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Colonel Ruslan Rudnev †) [41]
- Russian Air Force (Lieutenant General Sergey Dronov)
- Russian Airborne Forces (Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov)[42]
- 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division (Colonel Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kornev)
- 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment
- 108th Guards Kuban Cossack Air Assault Regiment[9]
- 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment (Colonel Konstantin Zizevski †)[43][44]
- 1141st Guards Artillery Regiment
- 76th Guards Air Assault Division (Major General Alexey Naumets)
- 98th Guards Airborne Division (Colonel Sergey Volyk)
- 217th Guards Airborne Regiment[46] (Guards Lt. Colonel Viktor Vasilyevich Droedov)
- 331st Guards Airborne Regiment (Colonel Sergei Sukharev †)[47]
- 106th Guards Airborne Division (Guards Colonel Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Selivyorstov)
- 51st Guards Airborne Regiment[48] (Guards Lt. Colonel Vyacheslav Aleksandrov)
- 137th Guards Airborne Regiment[48] (Guards Colonel Roman Andreyevich Borsuk)
- 1182nd Guards Artillery Regiment
- 45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Vadim Pankov)[8]
- 11th Guards Air Assault Brigade (Colonel Denis Nikolayevich Shishov, Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Denis Glebov †)[49][50]
- 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade (Colonel Sergei Karasev †)
- 5th Air Assault Company (Captain Eduard Gelmiyarov †)[51]
- 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade[9] (Guards Colonel Aleksandr Kornev)
- 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division (Colonel Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kornev)
- Russian Ground Forces (General of the Army Oleg Salyukov)
- GRU (Admiral Igor Kostyukov)
- 2nd Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Konstantin Bushuev)[39]
- 3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Albert Ibragimovich Omarov)[37]
- 10th Spetsnaz Brigade[9]
- 22nd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade[52] (Lieutenant Colonel Aleksei Nikolayevich Savchenko)
- 24th Spetsnaz Brigade[12]
- Russian Armed Forces (General of the Army Valery Gerasimov)
- Russian General Staff
- Security Council
- Russian National Guard (General of the Army Viktor Zolotov)
- 604th Special Purpose Center (Colonel Alexey Stromakov)[9]
- Kadyrovtsy (Head: Ramzan Kadyrov)
- OMON[55]
- SOBR[55]
- Russian National Guard (General of the Army Viktor Zolotov)
- Ministry of Internal Affairs (Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev)
- Federal Security Service (General of the Army Alexander Bortnikov)
- Foreign Intelligence Service (Director: Sergey Naryshkin)[6]
- Russian Irregular forces
- Union of Donbas Volunteers[57]
- Mercenaries
- Wagner Group (Dmitry Utkin)[58]
- Arab and African mercenaries[59][60]
- South Ossetian and Abkhaz Mercenaries[61]
- Serb, Azeri and Libyan mercenaries[62]
- Ministry of Defence (General of the Army Sergey Shoygu)
- Donetsk People's Republic (Supreme C-in-C: Denis Pushilin)
- Donetsk People's Militia (Major General Denis Sinenkov)
- Sparta Battalion (Colonel Vladimir Zhoga †)[63][64]
- 100th Brigade
- 3rd Regiment[65]
- Donetsk People's Militia (Major General Denis Sinenkov)
- Luhansk People's Republic (Supreme C-in-C: Leonid Pasechnik)
- Luhansk People's Militia (Colonel Yan Leshchenko)
Ukrainian Forces[edit]
- Ukraine (Supreme Commander-in-Chief: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy)
- Ministry of Defence (Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov)
- Ukrainian General Staff (Lieutenant General Serhiy Shaptala)
- Ukrainian Armed Forces (General Valerii Zaluzhnyi)
- Ukrainian Ground Forces (Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi)
- Ukrainian Armored Forces
- 1st Tank Brigade (Colonel Ihor Shpak)[66]
- Ukrainian Rocket and Artillery Forces (Colonel Andriy Kolennikov)
- 302nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment[67]
- Ukrainian Mechanized Forces
- 10th Mountain Assault Brigade (Colonel Vasyl Zubanych)[68]
- 14th Mechanized Brigade (Colonel Oleksandr Zhakun)[69]
- 22nd Motorized Infantry Battalion[70]
- 24th Mechanized Brigade (Colonel Anatoly Shevchenko)[71]
- 53rd Mechanized Brigade[69]
- 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade[72]
- 59th Motorized Brigade[73]
- 61st Jager Infantry Brigade[39]
- 72nd Mechanized Brigade (Colonel Andriy Sokolov)[74]
- 92nd Mechanized Brigade[39]
- 93rd Mechanized Brigade (Colonel Vladislav Klochkov)[75]
- 128th Mountain Assault Brigade[12]
- 101st Brigade for the Protection of the General Staff (Colonel Mykola Shvets)[76]
- Foreign volunteers
- Ukrainian Armored Forces
- Special Operations Forces (Major General Hryhoriy Halahan )[80]
- Ukrainian Navy (Rear Admiral Oleksiy Neizhpapa)
- Ukrainian Naval Infantry (Lieutenant General Yuriy Sodol)
- Ukrainian Air Force (Major General Mykola Oleschuk)
- 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Colonel Volodymyr Kravchenko)[81]
- 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Andriy Yastrebov)[82]
- 114th Tactical Aviation Brigade[25]
- Ukrainian Air Assault Forces (Major General Yevhen Moisiuk)
- 79th Air Assault Brigade (Colonel Oleksiy Shandr)[83]
- 95th Air Assault Brigade (Colonel Oleh Hut)[83]
- 80th Air Assault Brigade (Colonel Volodymyr Shvorak)[84]
- Territorial Defense Forces (Brigadier General Yuriy Halushkin)[85]
- Ukraine citizens militia[95]
- Ukrainian Ground Forces (Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi)
- Ukrainian Armed Forces (General Valerii Zaluzhnyi)
- Chief Directorate of Intelligence (Brigadier General Kyrylo Budanov)[96]
- Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (Valeriy Kondratyuk)[96]
- State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (Serhiy Deyneko)
- Ukrainian General Staff (Lieutenant General Serhiy Shaptala)
- Ministry of Internal Affairs (Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky)
- National Guard of Ukraine (Major General Yuriy Lebid)
- 12th Operation Brigade[68]
- 4th Rapid Reaction Brigade[98]
- Azov Battalion (Commander: Denys Prokopenko)[99]
- Donbas Battalion (Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Polishchuk)[98]
- National Police of Ukraine (Police Chief Ihor Klymenko)
- National Guard of Ukraine (Major General Yuriy Lebid)
- Ukrainian volunteer militias
- Ministry of Defence (Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov)
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