This is the order of battle for the 2024 Kharkiv offensive.[1][2]
Russian forces
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Russian Airborne Forces
83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade - Guards Colonel Aleksandr Kornev[3]
98th Guards Airborne Division - Guards Colonel Viktor Igoryevich Gunaza[citation needed]
217th Guards Airborne Regiment - Guards Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Vasilyevich Droedov[citation needed]
- (Unknown air assault battalion)[citation needed]
Russian Aerospace Forces[4]
Russian Ground Forces
Moscow Military District
1st Guards Tank Army
20th Guards Combined Arms Army - Major General Sukhrab Akhmedov
3rd Motor Rifle Division - Major General Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Avdeyev[citation needed]
- 237th Tank Regiment[citation needed]
144th Guards Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Aleksey Alekseyevich Polyakov[11]
- 254th Motor Rifle Regiment[citation needed]
Southern Military District
3rd Guards Combined Arms Army
- 204th "Akhmat" Spetsnaz Regiment
- "Okhotnik" Detachment
- Chechen "Canada" group[12]
- "Okhotnik" Detachment
- 204th "Akhmat" Spetsnaz Regiment
8th Guards Combined Arms Army
51st Combined Arms Army
58th Guards Combined Arms Army
- 11th Separate Guards Engineering Brigade[15]
Leningrad Military District
6th Combined Arms Army - Alexander Vasilyevich Peryazev[16]
25th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade - Colonel Andrei Arkhipov[17]
138th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade - Guards Colonel Sergei Maksimov[18]- 4th Volunteer Reconnaissance and Assault Brigade[19]
- 1009th Motorized Rifle Regiment[20]
- 44th Army Corps[2]
- 72nd Motor Rifle Division
- 104th Artillery Brigade[citation needed]
- 128th Motorized Rifle Brigade[23]
- Central Military District
90th Guards Tank Division - Colonel Ramil Rakhmatulovich Ibatullin[citation needed]
- 228th Motorised Rifle Regiment[citation needed]
- Unknown military district
- Unknown army
- Unknown division
- 1008th Motor Rifle Regiment[24]
- 1486th Motor Rifle Regiment[citation needed]
- Unknown division
- Unknown army
- Unknown Army
"Gyutner" Group[25]
Storm-Z - Yevgeny Burdinsky[26]
Russian Navy
Black Sea Fleet
Baltic Fleet
- Leningrad Military District
- 11th Army Corps - Major General Andrey Ruzinsky[28]
- 18th Motor Rifle Division[29]
- 9th Motor Rifle Regiment[citation needed]
- 11th Tank Regiment[30]
- 29th Artillery Regiment[citation needed]
- 79th Motorized Rifle Regiment[31]
- 7th Motor Rifle Regiment[32] [33]
- 1427th Motor Rifle Regiment[citation needed]
- 18th Motor Rifle Division[29]
- 11th Army Corps - Major General Andrey Ruzinsky[28]
Pacific Fleet
Kadyrovites[34]- 116th Special Purpose Brigade[35]
Main Directorate of the General Staff
2nd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade - Konstantin Bushuev[36]
Ukrainian forces
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Ukrainian Ground Forces
Operational Command North
Operational Command South
42nd Mechanised Brigade[1]
57th Motorised Brigade - Denys Yaroslavsky[1][a]
Operational Command East
92nd Assault Brigade - Pavlo Fedosenko[1]
Offensive Guard
13th Khartiia Brigade[41]
Liut Brigade - Colonel Oleksandr Netrebko[42]
Russian Volunteer Corps - Denis Kapustin[43]
Ukrainian Navy
36th Marine Brigade - Lt. Col. Viktor Sikoza[44]
Ukrainian Air Force[45]
Ukrainian Air Assault Forces
71st Jaeger Brigade[46][47]
82nd Air Assault Brigade - Lt. Col. Pavlo Rozlach[48]
Notes
edit- ^ The unit was later transferred to the Pokrovsk axis[40]
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- ^ https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-June-16-2024
- ^ "RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 23, 2024". ISW Press. 23 July 2024.
- ^ "RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 22, 2024". ISW Press. 22 July 2024.
- ^ "RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 21, 2024". ISW Press. 21 July 2024.
- ^ "RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 7, 2024". ISW Press. 7 August 2024.
- ^ "Egyptian citizens fighting on Russian side in Kharkiv Oblast – Ukrainian forces". Ukrainska Pravda. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
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- ^ "RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 6, 2024". ISW Press. 6 August 2024.
- ^ "RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 24, 2024". ISW Press. 24 June 2024.
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- ^ "RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 20, 2024". ISW Press. 21 July 2024.
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- ^ Manley, Cameron. "Russia's Africa Corps, which includes former Wagner mercenaries, has been deployed in Kharkiv, UK Intel says". Business Insider. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 18, 2024". ISW Press. 18 June 2024.
- ^ "Russia's army tricking AFU with fake offensive, analysts say". news.online.ua. 12 May 2024. Archived from the original on 12 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
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