Russian official claims U.S. ‘directly participating’ in Ukraine fight as ‘Victory Day’ nears

Global News ^ | 8 May 2022 | Staff

[Erik Latranyi]

Russia’s most senior lawmaker on Saturday accused Washington of coordinating military operations in Ukraine, which he said amounted to direct U.S. involvement in military action against Russia.

“Washington is essentially coordinating and developing military operations, thereby directly participating in military actions against our country,” Vyacheslav Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel.

Washington and European members of the transatlantic NATO alliance have supplied Kyiv with heavy weapons to help it resist a Russian offensive that has resulted in the occupation of parts of eastern and southern Ukraine but failed to take Kyiv.

However, the United States and its NATO allies have repeatedly said they will not take part in fighting themselves, in order to avoid becoming parties to the conflict.

U.S. officials have said the United States has provided intelligence to Ukraine to help counter the Russian assault, but have denied that this intelligence includes precise targeting data.

Ukraine and the West say the fascist allegation is baseless, and that Russia has carried out an unprovoked act of aggression. The conflict has killed thousands in Ukraine, and more than five million people have fled the country.

Volodin said foreign advisers had been working in Ukraine since what he called the “coup d’etat,” in an apparent reference to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s democratic election in 2019.

The rhetoric comes just days ahead of what is known in Russia as “Victory Day” — the May 9 commemoration of the former Soviet efforts against the Nazis in World War Two.

There is speculation Russian President Vladimir Putin will send a warning to the West when he speaks at a parade in Moscow’s Red Square. There is also expected to be a flyover by the Il-80 “doomsday” command plane for the first time since 2010.

[PIF]

The RGF once used the Army with many Divisions. But that was during WWII and the cold war. Since there were no more major wars, the RGF downsized its unit division from Division to Battalion. However since 2012 or so they have begun to convert back to Division.

Now there is a mix of unit designations Division and Battalion.

Here’s a list of the units in the Ukraine vicinity:

**Lists of Orc Forces Identified:

**List of available 33 Orc Mech. Brigades
4MC, 7MC, 9, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 55, 57, 59, 60, 64, 69, 70, 74, 80, 83, 136, 138, 205

**List of 17 Uncommitted Mech. Brigades
9, 18, 19, 25, 28, 32, 33, 34, 36, 55, 59, 60, 69, 70, 80, 83, 136

**List of 5 Kivi-East Group
15, 27, 30, 35, 74

**List of 4 Izyum Bridgehead Group
21, 23, 38, 39

**List of 1 unclear locations:
64 - this is the Brigade accused of war crimes, now looks like it has been withdrawn from Ukraine.

**List of 6 other locations:
4MC (Military Camp), 7MC, 37, 57, 138, 205

**Tank Brigades: ->converted to
All available: 5th TB, 6th TB->47th TD, 7th TB->90th TD, 4th TD
Kyiv-East: 90th TD
Kyiv-West: 5th TB
Izyum Bridgehead: 4th TD
No reserves.

Other groups from the 20th Army, 8th Army, 58th Army:
2mD, 3mD, 3sfB, 10sfB, 12sfB, 14sfB, 24sfB, 45sfBl, 46B (141Rgt, 249Bt “South”), 61NB (Naval Brigade), 155NB, 336NB, 40NB, 7 (Kaliningrad Coastal Defense), 12EngB, 46MC, 201MC, 7MC, 42D, 19D, 20, 33/20D, 17B->70/42D, 1AK (5,15, 100,1), 2AK (4,7,3)

And now that you are thoroughly confused, none of the smaller divisions are even close to Western unit make up (totally forget the “BTG” terminology - a Western construct).
For instance: there are 2 kinds of Mechanized Infantry Brigades, each with a different, but similar, make up. Call them Type A and Type B.

Type A has 2 tank battalions (~60 T-72 tanks), 2 Infantry battalions, Engineer battalion, Recon battalion, 2 self propelled arty battalions (could be up to 3 battalions), MLRS (Grad) battalion, AA battalion, Comm battalion, UAV battalion (Orlon-10), Sniper battalion, and Support battalion. Self-sufficient.

Type B has 3 infantry battalions (mixed as A& B below), 1 Tank battalion.

Infantry battalions in each Brigade are of two types, call them A & B.
A has ~540 troops, 49 BTR-82s, 8 120MM Mortars, 6 AGS-17s, 15 AT missile. 3 SPG-9s. 3 companies of about 109-110 troops. Fighting force about 300 troops.

B has ~460 troops, 42 - BMP-2s, 8 120mm mortars, 6 AGS-17s, 15 AT missiles, 3 SPG-9s. 3 companies of 91 troops. Fighting force about 270 troops.

Troops on the frontline are never more than half, but more like 40%

Hope this helps clarify things ...

[OKSooner]

Thanks again.