Western Grouping of Forces
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The Western Grouping of Forces is a wartime formation of the Russian Ground Forces, found from and supported by the Western Military District (ZVO). It is deployed in Russian-occupied Ukraine and is fighting the Russo-Ukrainian War.
"During the initial stages of the invasion for groups of forces were formed —"West," "East," "Center," and "South"—corresponding to the four military districts. After the Ground Forces retreated from northern Ukraine in the spring of 2022, a relatively stable front line emerged; by late autumn 2022, it had assumed a shape that generally remains.. Within this front line, the groups of forces were clearly assigned axes in which they, using their own forces and assets, carried out combat missions. The northernmost section of the front from the state border to the Svatovo region, referred to by the Russian Ministry of Defense as the "Kupyansk direction," falls within the responsibility of the Group of Forces "West.""[1]
Its current commander is General Lieutenant Yevgeny Nikiforov.[2]
Staff Western Grouping of Forces
1st Guards Tank Army, WMD (Lieutenant General Sergey Aleksandrovich Kisel [dismissed];[3] unnamed deputy commander [dismissed])[4][5][3][6]
- 60th Command Brigade[7]
2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Andriy Smirnov – seriously wounded)[8][7][9]
1st Guards Tank Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Denis Lapin)[10][11]
1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment[12]
15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Colonel Kharitonov – seriously wounded)[8][13]- 147th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment[14]
- 1432nd Motorized Rifle Regiment [15]
4th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Yevgeny Nikolayevich Zhuravlyov)
49th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Colonel Ivan Grishin †)[19][7]
47th Tank Division[20][6]
- 6th Engineer Regiment (Colonel Mikhail Aleksandrovich Nagamov † [Nagamov was promoted to Deputy Chief of the Engineering Troops of the Western Military District 5 days before he was killed][26])[27]
27th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Sergey Safonov)[7][28]- 69th Logistics Brigade[7]
96th Reconnaissance Brigade[29][7]
112th Guards Missile Brigade[7]- 202nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade[30]
288th Artillery Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Evseev †)[7][31]
6th Combined Arms Army, WMD (Lieutenant General Vladislav Nikolayevich Yershov [dismissed & arrested])[32][3]
- 95th Command Brigade
25th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade[33]
138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade[34] (Colonel Sergei Maksimov)[35][36]- 9th Guards Artillery Brigade[37]
- 5th Anti-Aircraft Brigade [12]
- 26th Missile Brigade [12]
- 132nd Signals Brigade
- 1486th Motor Rifle Regiment
20th Guards Combined Arms Army, WMD (Lieutenant General Andrey Sergeevich Ivanaev)[3][38][6]
- 9th Guards Command Brigade
3rd Motor Rifle Division (Major General Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Avdeyev)[39][40][6][41]
- 237th Tank Regiment[42]
- 252nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Colonel Igor Nikolaev †)[43][22]
- 362nd Motor Rifle Regiment[34]
752nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment[44][22]- 99th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment [45]
144th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Lieutenant General Oleg Tsokov from August 2022, (wounded September 2022) †, previously Major General Vitaly Sleptsov)[46][41]
- 59th Guards Tank Regiment (Colonel Alexander Bespalov †)[47][22]
254th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Colonel I.A. Danshin)[48][22]- 283rd Motor Rifle Regiment [49]
488th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment[50][22]- 856th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment [12]
53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade[51]- 236th Guards Artillery Brigade[52]
448th Rocket Brigade (Colonel Dmitri Nikolaevich Martynov)[53]- 232nd Rocket Artillery Brigade[54]
3rd Army Corps
- 6th Motor Rifle Division[55]
- 17th High-Power Artillery Brigade [59]
72nd Motor Rifle Brigade[60][61]
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