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Russia does not recognize their presence in Ukraine, speaking out in words for the territorial integrity of our country. But almost 15 thousand soldiers from Russia from 14 units from ordinary motorized infantry to paratroopers and elite special forces have visited Donbass. They are occupiers.
The Russians control the territory from Shirokino and Novoazovsk, Donetsk region to Stanytsia Luhanska, and also have several bases with food and weapons.
In addition, field hospitals have been deployed in Donbass for soldiers who were wounded in battles with the Ukrainian army, - the Russian Interregional Coordination Center "Forgotten Regiment" reports.
podrobnosti.ua collected detailed and most complete information about which military units are fighting in Ukraine.
Motorized infantry divisions
Russian military units are positioned in such a way as to block the entire perimeter of the occupied territory, creating a buffer zone between the occupied and liberated settlements.
Inside the very hotbed of the conflict, the Russian army has a reserve stock, ready to help in case of need.
Layout of Russian units in Donbass
As part of the Russian motorized infantry on the territory of Ukraine, there are still 5 divisions of the Russian army.
So, the 18th separate motorized rifle brigade is located in the villages of Amvrosievka and Komsomolskoye, Donetsk region.
Brigade soldiers control Amvrosievka
The brigade itself is based in Chechnya, its number is 15 thousand people, it is armed with 130 tanks, 350 armored combat vehicles, 200 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 100 artillery guns with a caliber of more than 100 mm.
Soldiers from the 18th brigade together with terrorists control Amvrosievka
The 32nd separate motorized rifle brigade from Novosibirsk occupied the settlements of Telmanovo and Vasilyevo.
The brigade has at its disposal about 40 tanks, 130 armored personnel carriers - 130, there is heavy artillery of the Grad and Akatsia multiple launch rocket systems, 54 units in total.
32nd brigade occupied Telmanovo
The outskirts of Stakhanov and Bryanka were occupied by contract soldiers from the 35th separate motorized rifle brigade, which is based in the city of Aleysk, located near Novosiirsk, they are also assisted by the 74th separate motorized rifle brigade from Yugra.
In addition, tankers also managed to visit Ukraine. The 4th Guards Tank Division, the 13th Tank Regiment from Naro-Fominsk and the 136th Guards Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade from Buinaksk, Dagestan, were noted.
Tankers control the villages of Kirovskoe, Donetsk region and Novy Svet.
Russian paratroopers
Paratroopers from Russia have repeatedly come across geolocated photographs.
The most famous of them is the 104th Airborne Assault Regiment of the 76th Airborne Division from Pskov, known for its heroism in Chechnya, in the battle at Hill 776.
One of the Pskov paratroopers killed in Ukraine
The Pskov paratroopers took part in the battles near the village of Georgievka in the Luhansk region, where, according to one of them, more than 70 people died.
The funeral of the paratroopers near Pskov, which the Russian authorities tried to hide, received a wide response.
Paratroopers from Pskov who died at Georgievka
Also, under Georgievka, near Kumachevo and the village of Pobeda, 31 separate airborne assault brigades from Ulyanovsk managed to visit.
A paratrooper from Ulyanovsk who died in Ukraine
The 331st Airborne Regiment of the 98th Guards Airborne Division from Kostroma is present in Ukraine, the regiment was directly involved in the Chechen campaign, and also fought in Georgia in 2008, based in Torez.
In addition to them, the 7th Airborne Assault Mountain Division from Novorossiysk is also twice invaders, they fought in Chechnya, took part in the Georgian conflict, were spotted in Lugansk and in the Novosvetlovka area.
Base enemy with weapons and food
As a reserve, inside the occupied territories, the 56th separate guards airborne assault brigade from the city of Kamyshin in the Volgorod region and the 137th airborne regiment of the 106th guards airborne division from the city of Ryazan are used.
Special Forces
In addition to the usual paratroopers, there are also special forces, for example, the 45th separate guards regiment from Kubinka.
Parts of the regiment are based in the Ukrainian city of Novoazovsk, Mariupol region, famous for their participation in the conflicts in Chechnya and Georgia.
Marines, mountain battalions and other special brigades have also dug in Ukraine. A separate 200th motorized rifle brigade arrived from the very Arctic, the city of Pechenga.
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They are armed with 41 T-72B3 tanks of the latest development, 36 Akatsiy, 12 Hurricanes, 18 Gradov, the brigade was repeatedly recorded during the transfer and repainting of equipment for terrorists in the Rostov region.
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Russian soldiers disguise equipment for terrorists
They are not the only northern "guests", Ukraine also has the 61st separate marine brigade from Sputnik, which took an active part in the battles for Donetsk airport, and is based in Fashchevka.
Soldiers of the 33rd Separate Mountain Motorized Rifle Brigade from Maikop and the 8th Mountain Motorized Rifle Brigade from Chechnya control Makeyevka and Starobeshevo in Donetsk Oblast.
In total, more than 14.5 thousand Russian soldiers from 14 units passed through the war in Ukraine, while a kind of rotation continues and new military units and brigades come to replace the old ones.
As previously reported by podrobnosti.ua The Pskov paratroopers from the 76th brigade of the Russian armed forces lost more than 70 people near the village of Georgievka in the Luhansk region.
In the village of Vybuty near Pskov, on the morning of August 25, the funeral of paratroopers who died under unknown circumstances was held.
The funeral was received by the relatives of the soldiers from Pskov, Ulyanovsk and Tula.
Using the uniform of the Ukrainian Berkut unit, Russian paratroopers took part in the annexation of Crimea.
Soldiers of the 200th separate motorized rifle brigade from the Murmansk region were deployed to the border with Ukraine along with heavy equipment and ammunition.
At the same time, Russian soldiers are not shy and willingly upload photos from the war in Ukraine to social networks.
A Russian military group is stationed in Donbass, equal in power to the armies of European NATO member countries. This was announced by the Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine on the 112 Ukraine TV channel. Anatoly Matios.
According to him, Russia has supplied hundreds of artillery systems and tanks to the republics. "Tanks - 650 pieces, armored combat vehicles - 1,310 pieces, artillery of various calibers (including large-caliber artillery, prohibited by the Minsk agreements) - almost 500 barrels, multiple launch rocket systems - almost 260 units, anti-aircraft missile systems - up to 100 units".
In addition, according to Matios, there are 11 thousand Russians on the territory of Donbass uncontrolled by Kiev, three thousand of whom are career soldiers. “The Russian Federation is currently in Donbas in the number of almost three thousand people as part of two battalion tactical groups, one company tactical group, which, in addition to the above-mentioned units, are armed with almost 200 tanks, 400 armored combat vehicles, 140 pieces of artillery and the latest models anti-aircraft missile systems, "he said.
Recall that similar assessments were presented by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko... “Our intelligence confirms that the minimum level of Russian regular troops in the occupied territory of Donbass is about 3 thousand soldiers,” he said at a meeting with the US Secretary of Defense. James Mattis.
It is worth noting that in early September, the Speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladislav Seleznev announced a much larger number of Russian military personnel in the territory of Donbass. According to his estimates, up to 6 thousand Russian servicemen are in the Donbass, while “professional Russian military personnel constantly arrive in the territories not controlled by Kiev, including the governing bodies”.
Moscow has repeatedly stressed that Russia is not a party to the conflict in Donbass, which is exclusively internal to Ukraine and does not provide material, financial or other assistance.
At the same time, the Kiev officials themselves have repeatedly admitted that, despite the support of a stable belief about the presence of Russian troops in Donbass, there is no evidence of this and there was no.
In early May, the Minister for the Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons GeorgeTuka officially acknowledged the impossibility of confirming the presence of Russian troops on the territory of Donbass, noting that no international court in its decisions uses the clichés adopted in Ukraine about “Russian occupation”, “Russian invasion”, etc.
“The phrases“ everyone knows this ”or“ everyone knows this anyway ”is not taken into account there. When we say that there (in the Donbass - ed.) There are 5-10 thousand regular Russian troops, where is the evidence? Weapons - yes. And the troops? GRUshniki (Russian servicemen of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation convicted in 2016 in Ukraine Evgeny Erofeev and Alexander Alexandrov... - ed.), Which we exchanged - yes. But they turned out to be formally fired. Although, it seems, we all know all this. But, from the point of view of formality, in a court case, this is not evidence. Therefore, irrefutable evidence must be collected bit by bit, "Tuka said then in an interview with RBK-Ukraine.
To a direct question from a journalist of the publication whether there are formally Russian troops in the east of Ukraine, Tuka answered negatively: "We haven’t proved this in court yet."
Later, in early September, the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier stated that the special monitoring mission (SMM) could not confirm the presence of Russian troops in Donbas:
According to political scientist, member of the Bureau of the Presidium of the Rodina party, director of the Institute of Freedom Fyodor Biryukova, the only "national idea" of the Kiev authorities is a war with Russia.
- Kiev is waging a cold war with Moscow, but passes it off as a hot one, accusing the Russian Federation of a military invasion. Therefore, the next statements by the chief military prosecutor of Ukraine about the presence of a Russian military group in Donbas are adequate to the goals set for the Ukrainian regime as a whole. And the main goal here is to convince the EU and NATO that it is Moscow, not Kiev, that is sabotaging the Minsk agreements. That it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is the aggressor party in the protracted conflict between Kiev and Donbass.
"SP":— Is the "threat" too exaggerated?
- The obvious exaggeration from the point of view of common sense, the comparison of the size of the "Russian group" with the military power of NATO is explained by elementary laws of propaganda. Any problem, any danger must be exaggerated to draw attention. This is exactly what the Kiev regime has been doing throughout its existence. Propaganda does not need proof, emotions are important here, in this case - the feeling of fear of the power of the mythical "Russian invasion". Russian troops, like Gog and Magog, have dug in the Donbass and are preparing to enslave the whole of Europe - this is the current message of Kiev to its Western curators. In essence, the current statement of Matios is a mixture of the screams of a professional mourner with "velvet" moral terror. The Ukrainian authorities are asking the European bureaucrats and NATO to increase their support, at the same time intimidating them with the "Russian threat". And the "Russian threat" is a rather popular and convenient transnational meme today. It's not hard to see the truth behind all these official lies. The truth is that the Kiev regime is simply unable to find a way out of the conflict with Donbass.
The territories of the DPR and LPR have proven their effectiveness in repelling the attacks of Kiev militants, despite all the traps, the so-called truces. But if Kiev admits that there is nothing it can do about Donbass, it will thereby declare its political collapse. Then how to explain the problem and at the same time save face? And this is where the "Russian threat" comes in. Official Kiev habitually starts a hurdy-gurdy: "These are Russians, Russians came to the rescue!" It must be admitted that the EU and NATO love this pop genre of songs about the "Russian threat", listen with pleasure and can even pat the performer approvingly. But the Europeans are in no hurry to invest serious political and financial resources in Kiev. The catastrophic ineffectiveness of the current Kiev government, the fakeness of the unsuccessful and harmful state of Ukraine in its current state, is too obvious.
- Pay attention, for several months the Ukrainian propaganda told how everything is falling apart in Donbass, “the militants are fleeing en masse,” because of which they have decay and incompleteness. And then suddenly - bam! - and there again out of nowhere appeared a huge "Russian army", which will plug NATO into the belt, - notes Director of the Center for Eurasian Studies Vladimir Kornilov.
- Where did it come from in a couple of weeks? From the exercises, the "West" was transferred secretly from everyone, or what? .. Of course, the propagandists do not believe in this. But when the time comes to beg for money and weapons in the West, what other legend is there to voice?
"SP":— Does it sound too far-fetched? If the Donbass had such power, would the war still continue? Or do they think in Kiev that they can safely hang noodles on everyone's ears, that for the fourth year they have been successfully fighting almost the most powerful army in the world? Maybe it would be worth giving up the obvious exaggeration?
- Ukrainian propaganda cannot live without lies. Since the days of "Maidan" Kiev has become accustomed to the fact that it is possible to hang noodles on its ears with impunity. The most striking thing is that the media continue to relay this all without any critical analysis, and there is still an audience in Ukraine who believes in frank stories.
"SP":— Kiev officials are constantly confused in their assessments of the presence of Russian troops in Donbass, some even directly admit that they are not there. Is this the initiative of individual officials? Why is there no strict general line on this matter?
- Yes, sometimes it happens that one and the same official in one speech declares directly opposite theses. It's not about the contradictions between them. The point is the lack of common sense ...
"SP":— At a meeting with US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko also spoke about 3,000 Russian troops in Donbass. What for? Does he really hope to convince Trump of this? Yet, probably, American intelligence works here better than Ukrainian, and it is foolish to try to impose on Washington its data taken from nowhere ...
- Yes, American intelligence knows very well that there are no Russian troops in Donbass. Such statements are made for the public, not for the Pentagon ...
"SP":— RecentlyOSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier stated that there are no Russian troops in Donbass. How consistent are the West on this issue? There are no troops, but there is "aggression"?
- If American propaganda and Congress easily find traces of "Russian aggression" even in their election campaign, then what can we say about the military campaign in Donbass! At least there are Russian citizens there! This is enough for propagandists.
- Who is Matios to make such statements? A great commander in the rank of grand admiral without the Tenyukh-Crimean fleet or a generalissimo without the Geletey-Ilovaisky army? Is he somehow able to assess the military power of the enemy at the professional level? - asks the deputy editor-in-chief of the Novaya Zemlya magazine (Donetsk, DPR), permanent expert of the Izborsk club of Novorossiya, Alexander Dmitrievsky.
- No, he is a simple prosecutor, whose duties include monitoring the observance of the rule of law in the Ukrainian army. And instead of fulfilling what is written in his job descriptions, Pan Matios climbs into politics, and thanks to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned into Augean stables. It is not for nothing that it is said that the Almighty created a thief, and the evil one created a prosecutor: this is just about Matios.
"SP":— Ukrainian officials are constantly confused about the number of Russian troops in Donbass, some even admit that they are not there. How to explain such incoherence?
- To explain to them that there are no Russian troops in Donbass. For if they were there, there would be no inconsistency in the assessments of Ukrainian officials.
"SP":— The DPR and LPR militias have repeatedly noted the presence on the Ukrainian side of not only instructors from Western countries, but also mercenaries. Why does the Ukrainian side avoid talking on this topic?
- According to Art. 47 (2) of the first Additional Protocol of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions, a mercenary differs from foreign volunteers in that he is not a member of the troops of one of the conflicting parties, but from foreign military specialists, such as military instructors and advisers, in that that does not have the appropriate powers at the level of interstate agreements. That is, a mercenary is nobody and there is no way to call him, who is most often entrusted with the dirtiest work. Will the Ukrainian state expand on the participation of such a category in a punitive operation? Of course no.
"SP":— At one time, Vladimir Putin admitted that there are people in Donbass "who are engaged in resolving certain issues, including in the military sphere." To what extent can this be perceived as confirmation of Russia's presence in Donbass?
- Let's start with the fact that the presence of foreign advisers and other specialists from any of the parties in the conflict zone does not contradict international law. The parties have the right to ask for help and have the right to receive it, therefore speculation about the Russian presence in Donbass is groundless. As for the local population in Donbass, they unequivocally support a full-fledged Russian presence and a full-fledged Ukrainian absence east of the conditional Kupyansk - Izyum - Berdyansk line.
"SP":— In the West, they also say that they have no information about the presence of Russian troops, but they also freely operate on the clichés of "Russian aggression" adopted in Ukraine, etc. How is this to be understood? Well, politicians in Kiev are not quite adequate, why should they be like them?
- It was once said that the more impudent the lie, the more they will believe in it. This war against Donbass was unleashed by the West, and it needs excuses to continue it. Therefore, the myth of Russian aggression is being exploited ...
Recently, we, the Russians, and the entire civilized world, learned the news long-awaited for the current authorities of the former Ukraine. Namely - "reinforced concrete" proof of the presence of regular Russian troops in the Donbas!
But this evidence " Neither the authorities of the former Ukraine, nor their Western curators could show the world almost 4 years !?When, it seems, even "the chief of the General Staff of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko admitted that there are no regular units of the Russian army on the territory of Ukraine."
And, like, "in an interview with RBK-Ukraine, the Minister for the Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons Tuka admitted that there are no Russian troops on the territory of Donbass."
And yet, earlier, it seemed that neither the Kiev courts, at the periodic requests of individual deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, nor the UN court could recognize this .. "
... As is known, as opposed to all this, " US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volcker said: - You need to clearly understand that there are Russian troops in Donbass .(2)..
That is, once again - in spite of the lack of all kinds of evidence, the fact that for almost 4 years the intelligence of neither the former Ukraine, nor Western countries, nor numerous journalists, nor American satellites and drones could not confirm this ...
Volcker said, period!
And really - such an important person, the whole "special representative of the US State Department for Ukraine", and not believe ?! It's just bad manners!
But ... if you think about it - he is absolutely right! Volcker is an enemy, but he says a completely objective thing!
because even if these troops consist of yesterday's militias, even if their tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery and other weapons are seized from the Armed Forces of Ukraine - on the territory of the former Ukraine they protect the Russians, the Russian world, and, therefore, Russia.
Means - these are our Russian troops! And it doesn't matter how many there are. We do know - even one person in our army can resist a bunch of enemy soldiers!
"This Machine Gun Fighter ... is called Bato Dashidorzhiev, he is a Buryat, during the war with Georgia he served in the reconnaissance company of the 71st motorized rifle regiment.
His photograph in 2008 went around all the world media, he alone went out against the Georgian military column and won!
After the defeat of the Georgian army near Tskhinvali, its units retreated to Gori, but stumbled upon a Russian checkpoint.
The photo shows how a soldier of the Russian Armed Forces, a stocky and tanned Asian, alone, at the ready with a light machine gun, confronts the motorized infantry of the Georgian Armed Forces.
The column officers threatened the machine gunner to get out of the way and let them in, to which he sent them: "Go to x ..., b ... b."
Then journalists of foreign media who were moving with the column tried to talk to the machine gunner, and to which they received the same answer.
As a result, the column of the Georgian special forces turned around and moved to where it came from.".
And recent, when " 16 special forces from the Russian Federation confronted 300 Syrian militants for a day "? (4)
Therefore - again, if suddenly someone did not understand ...
Even if it will be only a few people, even if they have never served in the regular army, but with weapons in hand, risking their lives, they are protecting the Russians - these are our Russian troops!
Every time since 2014, Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsimbaliuk has been asking the Russian president questions about the presence of the Russian army in Donbass. Here's how his questions and Putin's answers have changed over the past four years.
Questions and answers are not provided in full. Comparison published by "Present".
2014
- Roman Tsimbalyuk, Ukrainian agency "UNIAN". The first question is about the punitive operation that you staged in the east of our country, and mainly against the Russian-speaking population. It is no secret that Russian servicemen and Russian militants are fighting there, who are satisfied with all this. How many Russian military did you send there? How many technicians did you send there? How many of them died on the territory of Ukraine? As the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, what would you say to the families of the fallen Russian officers and soldiers?
Putin: All people who, at the call of their hearts, fulfill their duty or voluntarily take part in some kind of hostilities, including in the south-east of Ukraine, are not mercenaries, because they do not receive money for this.
In our public consciousness, what is happening in the southeast of Ukraine is indeed a punitive operation, but it is being carried out by today's Kiev authorities, and not vice versa. After all, it was not the militias of the southeast that sent their combat units to Kiev, but, on the contrary, the Kiev authorities drove the armed forces to the southeast, using a multiple launch rocket system, artillery and combat aircraft.
2015
- Vladimir Vladimirovich, in the context of your repeated statements that there are no Russian regular military personnel in the Donbass, I would like to convey to you greetings from Captain Erofeev and Sergeant Aleksandrov, the third brigade, the city of Togliatti. Tell me, will you exchange them for Sentsov, Savchenko, Afanasyev, Kolchenko, Klykh? And this list is still far from complete.
Putin: About exchanges. We have never said that there are no people there who are involved in resolving certain issues, including in the military sphere, but this does not mean that regular Russian troops are present there. Feel the difference. This is the first thing.
Second. You named two or three people whom you propose to change, and then began a long list of whom you want to change them to. First, the exchange must be of equal value. And secondly, together with our colleagues, we must calmly discuss all this, talk and continue what we have always insisted on, and what the President of Ukraine is proposing: you need to free people who are held both on the one hand and on the other sides. First of all, this concerns people from Donbass, from the southeast of Ukraine, and Ukrainian servicemen who are detained in these territories. But the exchange should be equal here.
2016
- You often say that you were forced to defend Russian-speaking people in Crimea and Donbass. You said last year that you never hid the fact that you sent people to the Donbass to resolve military issues. Specify where it is written in the Minsk Agreements, and do you understand that if you ever retire, the Russians will remain invaders for the Ukrainians.
Putin: It would be good to ensure that the Ukrainian army in the Donbas is not considered an occupier in their own country. Here's what to think about.
2017
- This is not the first time I have asked you a question. And the trouble is only one thing: that you do not answer all the questions. And earlier you said that you never hid the fact that you were sending people to Donbass to resolve military issues, in life it is called killing Ukrainian citizens, and in principle everything is clear here, and our army knows what to do with these people, with yours. solvers, or solvers. If you do win the elections, perhaps you will continue to take such an absurd position on the Donbass, on the peacekeepers, and in practice, your people, who resolve issues there, they are engaged in the massacre of the population of Donbass, and you should not be afraid of this, because the liberated Ukrainian cities like Slavyansk and Mariupol live a wonderful peaceful life. Thanks.
Putin: There is no Russian army on the territory of Donbass. But certain military militia units have indeed been created there, which are self-sufficient and ready to repel any large-scale military actions against Donbass. We believe that this is in the interests of those people who live in this territory, because if they do not have such an opportunity, the massacre you mentioned, and even worse than in Srebrenica, will be carried out by the so-called nationalist battalions. And nothing will stop them, including an appeal, as some of my Western colleagues advised me, an appeal, in the event of a development of this kind, to international human rights organizations, and we are well aware of this.
