Pokrovsk offensive order of battle
Russian forces
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Russian Ground Forces
Central Military District - Colonel General Andrey Mordvichev[1]
2nd Guards Combined Arms Army - Major General Vyacheslav Gurov[2]
15th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Sergeevich Marushkin[3]
- 1437th Motorized Rifle Regiment[4]
27th Guards Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Dmitri Zavyalov
30th Motor Rifle Brigade[8][9]
385th Guards Artillery Brigade[10]
41st Guards Combined Arms Army - Lieutenant General Sergey Ryzhkov
35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade - Oleg Vladimirovich Kurygin[11]
55th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade - Colonel Denis Barilo[9][13]
74th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade[10]
90th Guards Tank Division - Colonel Ramil Rakhmatulovich Ibatullin[14]
- 75th Motor Rifle Brigade[19]
- 137th Motorized Rifle Brigade[20]
119th Missile Brigade[10]
120th Artillery Brigade[10]
Southern Military District - Colonel General Gennady Anashkin
8th Guards Combined Arms Army[21]
20th Guards Motor Rifle Division[22]
- 255th Motorized Rifle Brigade[22]
238th Artillery Brigade[26]
150th Guards Motor Rifle Division[27]
51st Guards Combined Arms Army - Lieutenant General Sergei Milchakov
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1st Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
114th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade - Yuri Zazykin[31]
Pyatnashka Brigade - Akhra Avidzba[a]
5th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade[33]
9th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade - Timur Kurilkin[31]
110th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade[17][10]
132nd Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade[10]
Sparta Battalion[35]- 56th Spetsnaz Battalion[36]
Eastern Military District - Lieutenant General Aleksandr Sanchik
68th Army Corps - Lieutenant General Dmitry Glushenkov[5]
- Unknown military district
- "Fregat" battalion[37]
"Maxim Krivonos" volunteer detachment[38][39][6][40][41]- "Mora" detachment[39]
- 506th Motor Rifle Regiment[39]
- 71st Separate Spetsnaz Brigade[42]
- "Borz" assault battalion[42]
- "Storm" assault battalion[42]
- "Smuglyanka" detachment[43]
- "Vizantiya" detachment[44]
- "Vanya Ivanov" Group[45]
- Rubikon Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies[46]
- AirNomads group[47]
GRU
Spetsnaz GRU
3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade - Guards Col. Albert Ibragimovich Omarov[48]
24th Separate Guards Special Forces Brigade[49]
- "Vega" Spetsnaz Detachment[50]
Russian Aerospace Forces
Russian Navy
Russian Naval Infantry - Lt. Gen. Viktor Astapov
810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade - Colonel Aleksey Borisovich Berngard[b]
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- BARS-14 "Sarmat"[18]
Ukrainian forces
Ukrainian Ground Forces
47th Mechanised Brigade - Col. Yan Yatsishen[52][c]
33rd Mechanized Brigade - Col. Ivan Voitenko[55]
100th Mechanized Brigade - Col. Ruslan Tkachuk[56].svg.png)
115th Mechanized Brigade - Ihor Ivanov[d]
117th Mechanized Brigade[57]
Skala Regiment - Major Yuriy Harkaviy ″Skala″[58]
5th Assault Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Yakovenko
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31st Mechanized Brigade[60][61]
110th Mechanized Brigade - Mykola Chumak
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152nd Jaeger Brigade
57th Motorized Brigade - Denys Yaroslavsky[56]
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59th Motorized Brigade - Vadym Sukharevsky[65][66] (reformed as the 59th Assault Brigade)
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54th Mechanized Brigade - Oleksiy Maistrenko[56]
55th Artillery Brigade - Roman Kachur[71][72]
93rd Mechanized Brigade - Col. Pavlo Palisa[73][74]
151st Mechanized Brigade - V. Samoilenko
14th Mechanized Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Vasyl Lapchuk †[75]
68th Jaeger Brigade - Oleksiy Shum[76][77]
155th Mechanized Brigade - Colonel Dmytro Ryumshin (until 12 December);[78][79] Colonel Taras Maksymov (after 12 December)[80][81][f]- 33rd Assault Battalion[84]
157th Mechanized Brigade[85]
International Legion
Rocket Forces and Artillery
Ukrainian Marine Corps
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35th Marine Brigade - Yuriy Andriyenko[88]_patch.svg.png)
37th Marine Brigade - Vitaliy Napkhanenko[89]
38th Marine Brigade - Lt. Col. Yevheniy Bova[90][91].svg.png)
43rd Artillery Brigade - Oleh Shevchuk[92][93]
Ukrainian Air Assault Forces
25th Airborne Brigade - Col. Yevhen Kurash[94][95]
46th Airmobile Brigade - Col. Valeriy Skred[96][97]
79th Air Assault Brigade - Col. Oleksandr Lutsenko[98]
Territorial Defence Forces
117th Territorial Defense Brigade[99].svg.png)
120th Territorial Defense Brigade - Colonel Yurii Paradiuk[100]
- 210th Territorial Defense Battalion[62]
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123rd Territorial Defense Brigade - Col. Roman Viktorovych Tokarenko
Unmanned Systems Forces
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National Police of Ukraine[103]
National Guard of Ukraine
1st Azov Corps[104]
Azov Brigade - Denys Prokopenko[105][106]
14th Chervona Kalyna Brigade[107]
Kara-Dag Brigade - Colonel Ivan Bondarenko[108]
Shkval Battalion - "Oleksandr"[109][110]
Notes
- ^ The unit was withdrawn and transferred to Kursk by 12 August 2024[32]
- ^ The unit was transferred to Kursk on 12 August 2024[32]
- ^ Transferred to Kursk in late September 2024[53][54]
- ^ The brigade was later transferred to Kursk
- ^ Disbanded on 19 November 2024
- ^ Destroyed and disbanded on 4 January 2025[82][83]
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