The Tactical Signs of the Units of the Russian Armed Forces Which Have Been
Deployed to Fight in Eastern Ukraine
by
InformNapalm https://en.informnapalm.org/
Battalion Tactic Groups (BTG) and Company Tactic
Groups (CTG) of the Southern Military District
No. of the MILITARY UNIT
18th Guards Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade Khankala
and Kalininskaya, Chechnya
27777
17th Guards Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade Shali,
Chechnya (presumably 2 BTGs)
65384
136th Motorized Rifle Brigade Botlikh, Dagestan
63354
205th Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade, Budyonnovsk,
Stavropol Krai
19th Motorized Rifle Brigade Vladikavkaz, North
Ossetia/Stanitsa Troitskaya, Ingushetia (presumably 2 BTG,
one of those based in occupied Crimea, close to
Armyansk).
7th Military Base, occupied Abkhazia, Georgia
4th Military Base , Samachablo region (occupied Southern
Ossetia), Georgia (a company formed from the intelligence
battalion and from the company of snipers of the
mentioned military base).
33rd Independent (Mountain) Reconnaissance Brigade,
Maykop, Adygea
8th Guards Independent (Mountain) Motor-Rifle Brigade,
Borzoy, Chechnya.
Mixed howitzer and reactive divisions of the 291st Artillery
Brigade, Stanitsa Troitskaya, Ingushetia. Formations of the
unit are now in Crimea and also close to the Eastern
border of Ukraine
439th Guards MLRS Brigade, Znamensk
Divisions of MLRS “Uragan”, 943rd Multiple Rocket
Launcher Regiment , Adyhea, Krasnooktyabrskiy.
8th Separate Artillery Regiment, which are to be stationed
in occupied Crimea, Simferopol
175th (Communications Hub) Signal Brigade, Aksay,
Rostov Region.
176th (Territorial) Signal Brigade, Rostov Region,
Novocherkassk.
74814
20634
9332
66431
22179
16544
64670
21797
69673
87714
1957
71609
TM
34th Brigade of Administration of 58th Army, Northern
Ossetia, Vladikavkaz
29202
Mixed company from the 78th logistic brigade,
Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Krai
66th C3 Brigade, Stavropol
99th Brigade of Material-Tech Supply of 49th Army,
Adyhea, Maykop
474th separate motor battalion of heavy haulers stationed
at Millerovo, Rostov region
11384
41600
72153
33027
20th Motorized Rifle Brigade (Volgograd), M/U22220
20th Motorized Rifle Brigade 255-й мотострелковый
полк
34605
34th Mountain Motorized Rifle Brigade (KarachayCherkessia
1485
67th Air Defense Missile Brigade based in Vladikavkaz,
North Ossetia M/U 32383
Battalion Tactic Groups (BTG) and Company Tactic Groups (CTG) of the Western Military District
9th Motorized Rifle Group, Nizhniy Novgorod
54046
6th Tank Brigade, Mulino. 54096
Divisions of 275th Artillery Regiment of the 4th Guards
Tank Division, Naro-Fominsk
Division of MLRS “Uragan” from 288th Artillery Unit,
Nizhniy Novgorod, Mulino.
138th Motorized Rifle Brigade (MRB) Kamenka, Vyborgsky
District, Leningrad Oblast
147th Automotive Logistic Support Battalion which based
at 68 Rublevskoe Shosse in Moscow
79th Rocket Artillery Brigade permanently based in Tver
69 th Logistics Support Brigade, Мulino
48763
30683
2511
83466
53956
11385-2
Battalion Tactic Groups (BTG) and Company Tactic Groups (CTG) of the Central Military District
32 nd Motorized Brigade, Shilovo, Novosibirskaya region.
22316
74 th Motorized Brigade, Yurga, Novosibirsk
21005
23 rd Motorized Brigade, Samara
65349
21 th Motorized Brigade, Totskoye
12128
15 th Separate Motorized Brigade (part of the so-called
“Peacekeeping forces”), Roschinskyy (Samara)
90600
7 th Tank Brigade, Chebarkul
28 th Motorized Brigade, Ekaterinburg. A BTG (or possibly
a CTG) of the unit was identified in June 2014 in the area
of Veseliy village, Rostov region, close to Ukrainian border.
89547
61423
35th Motorized Rifle Brigade, Aleysk, Altay region
M/U41659
• 385-st Artillery Brigade , Totstkoe
32755
Battalion Tactic Groups (BTG) and Company Tactic Groups (CTG) of the Eastern Military District
5th Tank Brigade Buryatia, Ulan-Ude town
46108
37th Motorized Rifle Brigade stationed in Kyakhta
Russian Navy
69647
810 th Marine Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol,
occupied Crimea, and also from Temryuk, Rostov Region.
61 th Marine Brigade of the Northern Fleet, Sputnik
village, Kolskiy peninsula.
13140
38643
200 th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Northern Fleet,
Pechenega village, Murmansk region, M/U 08275
336th Guards Brigade at Baltiysk (Baltic Fleet)
Airborne Forces
6117
76 th Guards Air Assault Division — 234th Air Assault
Regiment, Pskov
74268
98 th Guards Airborne Division – 331st Guards Airborne
Regiment, Ivanovo/Kostroma
71211
7 th Guards Airborne Division – 247th Regiment,
Novorossiysk/Stavropol
54801
106 th Guards Airborne Division – 51st and 137th Airborne
Regiments, Tula
41450
56 th Guards Air Assault Brigade, Volgograd region
74507
31 th Guards Airborne Brigade (“Peacekeeping forces”),
Ulyanovsk
73612
45 th Guards Spetsnaz Regiment, Kubinka
28337
Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation
10 th Separate Spetsnaz Brigade (Diversionary
Reconnaissance Group), Molkino, Krasnodar region.
51532
22 nd Separate Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Diversionary
Reconnaissance Group), Aksay, Rostov region
11659
346 th Separate Spetsnaz Brigade (Diversionary
Reconnaissance Group), Prohladniy, Kabardino-Balkaria
Electronic unit and squadron of unmanned aerial vehicles
of the 100th Experimental Reconnaissance Brigade,
Mozdok, Northern Ossetia.
154th Separate Radio Engineering Special Actions Brigade,
Stavropol Kray
Airborne Intelligence Group, 2nd Separate Spetsnaz
Brigade, Pskov.
Airborne Intelligence Group, 16th Separate Spetsnaz
Brigade, Tambov
14 th Separate Spetsnaz Brigade, Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai
Airborne Intelligence Group, 3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade,
Ulyanovsk.
Airborne Intelligence Group, 24th Separate Spetsnaz
Brigade, Berdsk.
It is also believed that formations from the 25th Spetsnaz
Regiment from Stavropol are operating in Ukraine as well
as other units of signal intelligence that have been
Special groups from military unit #35690, Center of Special
Forces, Codename of the base: “Sputnik”, Balashyha,
Moscow region
23511
13204
64044
54607
74854
21208
64655
5525
35690
note: 7th, 76th, 98th,103th, 104th Divisions can have
up side down trianlges with a number. This number
indicate a serial number of a regiment in the division.
Example, in 76th Division N 1 is 104 th Air Assault
Regiment, in 103rd Division N 1 is 317 th Regiment.
Additional info
76 th Guards Air Assault Division — 104th Air Assault
Regiment, Pskov
32515
64-th Motorized Brigade Khabarovcsk
51460
102-nd Russian military base
Gyumri, Armenia
155th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade Pacific Fleet ("Black
Berets")
Southern Primorye