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

Global News ^ | 8 May 2022 | Staff

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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64 - this is the Brigade accused of war crimes, now looks like it has been withdrawn from Ukraine.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]

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