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This is the order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It should not be considered complete; up-to-date; nor fully accurate, being based on open-source press reporting.

An updated order of battle estimate for 23 April 2023, by the Institute for the Study of War is accessible at:

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, 23 April

Another ISW-relevant publication, published in October 2023:

Russian Regular Ground Forces Order of Battle: Russian Military 101

Russian forces in 2022

Senior commanders for the 2022 invasion of Ukraine

Andrey Belousov, Minister of Defence since May 2024

General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff and commander of Russian forces in Ukraine

Administrative chain of command

Commanders of the various MOD armed services and branches do not have operational control over the forces. They are responsible for force development and generation. The Chiefs of the ground forces, aerospace forces, navy, strategic missile forces, and airborne forces also hold the appointments of Deputy Ministers of Defence, junior to the Chief of the General Staff, who is the First Deputy Minister of Defence.

The General Staff commands and controls forces through the National Defence Management Centre (NDMC). Operational control of the forces was carried out by the five Operational-Strategic Commands—the Western, Southern, Central, and Eastern Military Districts and the OSK Northern Fleet, which is their equal. The Western and Southern Military Districts share borders with Ukraine and are directly involved in command and control of operations.

Pre-2022 Russian military doctrine had specified that on the outbreak of war, armed forces from non-MOD services (like Rosgvardiya) would be placed under the General Staff.

(President of the Russian Federation: Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin)
- Security Council
  - Rosgvardiya (General of the Army Viktor Zolotov; Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Roman Gavrilov)
- Federal Security Service (General of the Army Alexander Bortnikov)
  - Russian Border Guards (Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service and Head of the Border Service: Vladimir Kulishov)
- Federal Protective Service (Director of the Federal Protective Service: General Dmitry Kochnev)
- Ministry of Internal Affairs (Minister of Internal Affairs: Vladimir Kolokoltsev)
  - Police of Russia
- Ministry of Defence (Minister of Defence: Andrey Belousov)
  - Russian General Staff (Chief of the General Staff: General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff Nikolay Bogdanovsky); National Defense Management Center (Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev)
    - GRU (Director: Admiral Igor Kostyukov)
      - 8th Directorate - Directorate Spetsnaz (Spetsnaz GRU)
    - Russian Ground Forces (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces and Deputy Minister of Defence: General of the Army Oleg Salyukov)
      - Russian Engineer Troops (Lieutenant General Yuri Stavitsky)
      - Russian Missile Troops and Artillery (Lieutenant-General Mikhail Matveyevsky)
      - Russian Tank Troops
      - Air Defence Troops of the Russian Ground Forces
      - Russian Army Aviation
    - Logistical Support of the Russian Armed Forces (Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, who replaced Army General Dmitry Bulgakov in September 2022)
      - Russian Railway Troops
    - Russian Aerospace Forces (Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces and Deputy Minister of Defence: General of Army Sergey Surovikin)
      - Russian Air Force (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces: Lieutenant General Sergey Dronov)
    - Russian Airborne Forces (Vozdushno-desantnye voyska (VDV)) (Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces: Colonel-General Mikhail Teplinsky who replaced Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov in June 2022
    - Russian Navy (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy and Deputy Minister of Defence: Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov)
      - Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy (Lieutenant General Viktor Astapov)
        Russian Naval Infantry (Lieutenant General [ru])
      - Russian Naval Aviation (Major-General Igor Kozhin)

Initial force groupings

Ukrainian military commentator Yuri Butusov listed the following initial March 2022 deployment of Russian/allied forces:


Grouping	Role	Located around	Forces from	Estimated strength
Southwestern Belarus	blocking contingent against Ukrainian forces in Western Ukraine	Brest, Luninyets, Baranavichy, Asipovichy and Minsk	Northern Fleet (200th (Arctic) Motor Rifle Brigade, 61st Guards Naval Infantry Brigade) VDV (76th, 98th Guards Airborne Divisions)	6–7 battalion tactical groups (BTGs)
Southeastern Belarus	Kyiv offensive direction	Vepri, Elsin, Brahin, Khainini, Rechytsa and Mazyr	5th, 35th and 36th Combined Arms Armies (CAA)	7–9 BTGs
Bryansk	Chernihiv offensive direction	Klimovo, Klintsy, Pochep and Sevsk	41st CAA and the 90th Guards Tank Division	3 BTGs
Kursk–Belgorod	Sumy offensive direction	Tomarovka, Vesela Lopan', Zorino, Pristen', Kursk and Belgorod	6th and 20th CAAs	4 BTGs
Voronezh	Kharkiv offensive direction	Stary Oskol, Soloti, Valuyki, Boguchar, Pogonovo and Voronezh	6th Tank and 20th CAAs	13–14 BTGs
Smolensk	operational reserve of the northern front	Yelnya	20th and 41st CAAs	6–7 BTGs
Rostov	Donbas and eastern Sea of Azov offensive direction	Rostov-on-Don and Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy	8th CAA	6 BTGs
Crimea	southern Ukraine offensive direction	Crimean Peninsula (Slavne, Dzhankoi, Novoozerne, Yevpatoria, Sevastopol, Oktyabrskoye, Bakhchysarar, Angarskyi, Feodosia, Opuk)	58th CAA Black Sea Fleet's 22nd Army Corps (810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade)	up to 13 BTGs
Kuban	operational reserve of the southern front	Kuban Peninsula (Novorossiysk, Korenovsk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar, Mol'kino and Maykop) and Stavropol	49th CAA Black Sea Fleet's 22nd Army Corps VDV's 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division	6 BTGs

Russian leaders, 2022–23

Despite evolving Russian doctrine, which specified all troops and forces operating from one Operational-Strategic Command (OSK) be placed under one commander, multiple repeated sources (Rochan Consulting, Center for Naval Analysis, British Ministry of Defence) reported that separate groupings of forces drawn from each of the four military districts, under the leadership of senior personnel from that military district, took part in the initial invasion. President Vladimir Putin was repeatedly reported to be very involved, sometimes giving orders to field formations.

In April 2022, the invasion began to run into setbacks; Russian forces were forced to withdraw from their attempt to take Kyiv. Therefore, a single senior coordinating officer was appointed to handle the more protracted war.

Army General Aleksandr Dvornikov (8 April 2022 – 25 June 2022): placed in overall charge of military operations in Ukraine, effectively ending the grouping system;
Colonel General Gennady Zhidko (26 June 2022 – 7 October 2022): appointed by Vladimir Putin to the top position, replacing Dvornikov;
Army General Sergey Surovikin (8 October 2022 – 11 January 2023): previously commander of the Aerospace Forces and Army Group South, replacing Zhidko in overall command.

Russian forces

Since 12 January 2023, Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov was appointed as commander of military operations in Ukraine, with Surovikin as his deputy.

The actual operational chain of command of the Russian military effort in Ukraine is not public, changes, and is a mix of state and non-state bodies. Personal rivalries are evident. President Vladimir Putin, however, remains firmly in control, sometimes micromanaging. The loose connection of various mercenary bodies and Ramzan Kadyrov's Chechens to the official command chain has been represented by placing them under headers separate to the Russian Armed Forces.

It is unclear how tactical fighter, ground attack, and strategic bomber "sorties" (one flight of one aircraft) are scheduled and controlled.

On 18 April 2023, Russian official sources said that President Putin had held meetings in the Kherson area with several commanders. The President "..received reports from the commander of the Dnepr forces grouping, General Lieutenant Oleg Makarevich, the commander of the Vostok [Eastern] forces grouping, General Lieutenant Andrey Kuzmenko, and the deputy commander of the combined grouping, General Colonel Mikhail Teplinsky." The meetings likely took place before 16 April.

Direct Forces under President

Russia (President of the Russian Federation: Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin)
- Security Council
  - Russian General Staff (Chief of the General Staff: General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff Nikolay Bogdanovsky)
    - National Defense Management Center (Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev)
    - Long Range Aviation - administratively Aerospace Forces; operationally, air operations centre of whatever description
      - 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Colonel Mykola Varpahovych)
        52nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment (Tupolev Tu-22M) (Colonel Oleg Timoshyn)

Mercenaries and Foreign Fighters

Wagner Group (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Utkin †)
- DShRG Rusich (Commander: Alexey Milchakov)
Gazprom Neft Security
- Fakel
- Plamya
Africa Corps ("Russian Expeditionary Corps")
Patriot
Redut ("1st Expeditionary Volunteer Assault Corps") (GRU)

Redut
- Union of Cossack Warriors of Russia and Abroad
  - Don Brigade
    - Listan Battalion
  - Terek Brigade
    - Skif Battalion
- 16th Special Forces Brigade of the GRU
  - Volki ("Wolves") Brigade
  - Tigry ("Tigers") Formation
  - Veter 177 Formation
  - Nevsky Formation
- Union of Donbass Volunteers
  - Sever ("North") Formation
  - Tsentr ("Center") Formation
  - St. George's Brigade
    - Zubr ("Bison") Formation
    - Kherson Formation
    - Artdivision Formation
    - Vikhr ("Whirlwind") Formation
- Veterans of Russia Movement
  - Veterans Formation
- Gazprom Neft Security
  - Potok ("Flow") Formation
- Others
  - Medvedi ("Bears") Special Brigade
  - Lev ("Lion") Formation
  - Rysi ("Lynx") Formation
  - Borz Formation
  - Espanola Formation
  - Troya ("Troy") Formation
  - Irbis ("Snow Leopard") Formation
  - ~~Imperial Legion Formation~~ (left "Redut")
  - ~~Rusich Formation~~ (left "Redut")

Tsar's Wolves
Uran
Korean People's Army
- Korean People's Army Ground Force
  - XI Corps
  - 94th Separate Brigade
- Storm Corps
  - 92nd Special Operations Brigade
  - 94th Special Operations Brigade

Militias

Storm Ossetia (Commander: Ayvengo Tekhov †) (disbanded in 19 June 2023, restored in an unknown date)
Alania Battalion
Vladlen Tatarsky Battalion

Reserve units of the Russian Armed Forces

BARS

Chechens

Kadyrovites (Head: Colonel General Ramzan Kadyrov)
- [ru] (Lieutenant Colonel Magomed Tushayev)
  - North Battalion
- Akhmat Special Forces
- 78th Motor Rifle Regiment (Sever-Akhmat) subordinate to the 42nd Motorised Rifle Division, 58th Combined Arms Army

Spetsnaz units

Clear evidence as to which Grouping of Forces these brigades belong to is not readily available.

2nd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Konstantin Bushuev)
3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade
10th Spetsnaz Brigade
14th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Sergey Polyakov †) (formerly Lieutenant Colonel Albert Karimov †)
16th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Deputy Commander Major Dmitri Vladimirovich Semenov †)
24th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade
346th Spetsnaz Brigade of the Russian Special Operations Forces

Units returned to Russia:

22nd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade returned to Russia to reconstitute in 2022 following major losses. The unit was then redeployed to Ukraine, suffering losses around Melitopol in March 2023.

Joint group of forces

Central Military District (TsVO) (Commander: Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev from 17 February 2023 (formerly Major General Alexander Linkov)
- 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, CMD (Major General [ru])
  - 91st Headquarters Brigade
  - 21st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Dmitri Zavyalov)
  - [ru]
  - 385th Guards Artillery Brigade
- 25th Combined Arms Army (Major General Andrey Seritsky)
  - 67th Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Zulfat Nigmatzyanov)
    - 19th Tank Regiment
    - 31st Motor Rifle Regiment (Bashkortostan)
    - 36th Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 37th Motorised Rifle Regiment
  - 164th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (Aleysk)
  - 11th Tank Brigade
  - 73rd Artillery Brigade
- 41st Guards Combined Arms Army, CMD (Lieutenant General [ru], Deputy Commander Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky †)
  - 35th Headquarters Brigade
  - 90th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Ramil Rakhmatulovich Ibatullin)
    - [ru] (Colonel Andrei Zakharov †)
    - 80th Tank Regiment
    - 239th Guards Tank Regiment
    - 228th Motor Rifle Regiment (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Fezul Bichikaev †)
    - 400th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
  - 35th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
  - 55th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade
  - 74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Alekseyevich Yershov)
  - 61st Anti-Aircraft Brigade
- 201st Military Base, CMD (original location Tajikistan)
- 202nd Motor Rifle Regiment
- 28th Pontoon Bridge Brigade
- 1st Mobile NBC Protection Brigade
- 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade VDV (Colonel Sergei Karasev †)
Eastern Military District (VVO) (Lieutenant-General Andrei Kuzmenko (unconfirmed) (from late March 2023) (formerly Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov (from June 2022, dismissed April 2023) )
- 5th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Lieutenant General [ru])
  - 80th Command Brigade
  - 127th Motor Rifle Division
    - 114th Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 143rd Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 392nd Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 394th Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 433rd Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 218th Tank Regiment
    - 872nd Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Fyodor Evgenievich Solovyov †)
  - 57th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
  - 60th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
  - 305th Artillery Brigade
  - 8th Anti-Aircraft Brigade
- 29th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Major General Andrei Borisovich Kolesnikov)
  - 101st Headquarters Brigade
  - 36th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel (Guards) Andrei Vladimirovich Voronkov)
- 35th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Lieutenant General [ru], Deputy Commander Major General Sergei Nyrkov [wounded, not returning to active duty] General-Major Sergey Goryachev, chief of staff.†)
  - 54th Headquarters Brigade
  - 38th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Andrey Borisovich Kurbanov, Deputy Commander Major Sergey Masterov †)
  - 64th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Azatbek Asanbekovich Omurbekov, allegedly responsible for the Bucha massacre) (effectively destroyed by September 2022)
  - 165th Artillery Brigade
  - 69th Covering Brigade
- 36th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Lieutenant General Valery Solodchuk, Deputy Commander Major General Andrei Anatolyevich Seritskiy, seriously wounded)
  - 75th HQ Brigade
  - 5th Guards Tank Brigade
  - 37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Marat Hajibalaev †) (formerly Colonel Yuri Medvedev (WIA))
  - 30th Artillery Brigade
  - 103rd Rocket Brigade
  - 26th NBC Protection Regiment
  - 1723rd Anti-Aircraft Regiment
- 68th Army Corps, EMD (Lieutenant General [ru])
  - 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division
    - 46th Machine Gun Artillery Regiment
    - 49th Machine Gun Artillery Regiment
  - 39th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
  - 338th Guards Rocket Artillery Brigade
- Naval Infantry of the Pacific Fleet
  - 40th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade
  - 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade
- Airborne Forces
  - 11th Guards Air Assault Brigade VDV (Major General Alexey Naumets (Fired April 2022), Colonel Denis Shishov, Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Denis Viktorovich Glebov †, Deputy Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Kislyakov †)
  - 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade VDV (Deputy Commander Guards Lieutenant-Colonel Vitaliy Slabtsov †)
    - 1428th Territorial Defense Motor Rifle Regiment
Western Military District (ZVO) (Commander: Lieutenant General Yevgeny Nikiforov, (formerly Colonel General Sergey Kuzovlev (October 2022 to December 2022)), (formerly Colonel General Alexander Lapin (September 2022 to October 2022)) (replaced Lieutenant General Roman Berdnikov (4 September to 19 September 2022)) (replaced Lieutenant General Andrei Sychevoi (from June 2022; reportedly dismissed by 4 September 2022)(June 27 to 26 August)) (replaced Colonel General Alexander Zhuravlyov in June 2022)
- 1st Guards Tank Army, WMD (Lieutenant General Sergey Aleksandrovich Kisel [dismissed]; unnamed deputy commander [dismissed])
  - 60th Command Brigade
  - 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Andriy Smirnov – seriously wounded)
    - 1st Guards Tank Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Denis Lapin)
    - 1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Colonel Kharitonov – seriously wounded)
    - 147th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
    - 1432nd Motorized Rifle Regiment
  - 4th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Yevgeny Nikolayevich Zhuravlyov)
    - [ru] (S. I. Safonov)
    - 13th Guards Tank Regiment
    - 423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle Regiment
  - 49th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Colonel Ivan Grishin †)
  - 47th Tank Division
    - 26th Tank Regiment
    - 272nd Motor Rifle Regiment
  - 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])
  - 27th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Sergey Safonov)
  - 69th Logistics Brigade
  - 96th Separate Reconnaissance Brigade
  - [ru]
  - [ru]
  - [ru] (Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Evseev †)
- 6th Combined Arms Army, WMD (Lieutenant General Vladislav Nikolayevich Yershov [dismissed & arrested])
  - 95th Command Brigade
  - 25th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
  - 138th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Sergei Maksimov)
  - 9th Guards Artillery Brigade
  - 5th Anti-Aircraft Brigade
  - 26th Missile Brigade
  - 132nd Signals Brigade
  - 1486th Motor Rifle Regiment
- 20th Guards Combined Arms Army, WMD (Lieutenant General [ru])
  - 9th Guards Command Brigade
  - 3rd Motor Rifle Division (Major General Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Avdeyev)
    - [ru]
    - [ru] (Colonel Igor Nikolaev †)
    - 362nd Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 752nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 99th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
  - 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Lieutenant General Oleg Tsokov from August 2022, (wounded September 2022) †, previously Major General Vitaly Sleptsov)
    - [ru] (Colonel Alexander Bespalov †)
    - [ru] (Colonel I.A. Danshin)
    - 283rd Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 488th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment
    - 856th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
  - 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
  - 236th Guards Artillery Brigade
  - 448th Rocket Brigade (Colonel Dmitri Nikolaevich Martynov)
  - 232nd Rocket Artillery Brigade
- 3rd Army Corps
  - 6th Motor Rifle Division
    - 54th Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 57th Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 10th Tank Regiment
    - 27th Artillery Regiment
    - 52nd Separate Anti-Aircraft Missile Artillery Brigade
  - 17th High-Power Artillery Brigade
  - 72nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
    - «Alga» battalion (Colonel Yaga - captured)
    - «Molot» battalion
    - Bashkir "Shaimuratova" volunteer battalion
    - Orenburg Oblast "Yaik' volunteer battalion
- 11th Army Corps, from the Baltic Fleet (Lieutenant General Andrey Ruzinsky)
  - 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division
    - 79th Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 275th Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 280th Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 11th Tank Regiment
    - 22nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
  - 7th Motor Rifle Regiment
  - 9th Motor Rifle Regiment
  - [ru]
  - 244th Artillery Brigade
- 14th Army Corps, from the Northern Fleet (Major-General Boris Fomichev, deputy commander Major-General Vladimir Zavadsky†)
  - 80th Arctic Motor Rifle Brigade
  - 200th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, (Colonel Denis Yuryevich Kurilo) (reportedly decimated December 2022)
  - 382nd Rocket Artillery Battalion (Lieutenant Colonel Dinar Khametov †)
  - 61st Red Banner Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel Kirill Nikolaevich Nikulin), from the Northern Fleet
    - 874th Naval Infantry Battalion (Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Safronov †)
  - 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel (Guards) Igor N. Kalmykov, Chief of Staff Colonel Ruslan Shirin †), from the Baltic Fleet
- 45th Svir High-Powered Rocket Artillery Brigade
- Russian Airborne Forces (VDV)
  - 45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Vadim Pankov †)
  - 76th Guards Air Assault Division VDV
    - 104th Guards Air Assault Regiment VDV (Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Dosyagaev †)
    - 234th Guards Air Assault Regiment VDV (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Afonin †)
    - [ru] VDV (Lieutenant Colonel Georgy Khudik †)
    - 1140th Guards Artillery Regiment VDV
    - 4th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment VDV
  - 98th Guards Airborne Division VDV (Guards Colonel Viktor Igoryevich Gunaza [dismissed by end of March], Head of Communications Colonel Alexey Smirnov †)
    - 217th Guards Airborne Regiment VDV (Guards Lt. Colonel Viktor Vasilyevich Droedov)
    - 331st Guards Airborne Regiment VDV (Colonel Sergei Sukharev †, Deputy Commander Lt. Colonel Ivan Pozdeev †, Chief of Staff Lt. Colonel Igor Zharov †) (seriously depleted in fighting near Kyiv)
    - 1065th Guards Artillery Regiment VDV
    - 5th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment VDV
  - 104th Guards Airborne Division VDV
    - 328th Airborne Regiment VDV
  - 106th Guards Airborne Division VDV (Guards Colonel Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Selivyorstov (dismissed July 2023), Deputy Commander Colonel Sergey Igorevich Kuzminov †, Deputy Armaments Commander Maxim Kudrin †)
    - 51st Guards Airborne Regiment VDV
    - 119th Airborne Regiment VDV
    - 137th Guards Airborne Regiment VDV (Colonel Andrey Vasilyev †, Deputy Commander Lt. Colonel Pavel Krivov †)
    - 1182 Guards Artillery Regiment VDV
    - 1st Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment VDV
- Aerospace Forces
  - 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Lieutenant General Oleg Makovetsky)
    - 332nd Separate Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-24)
    - 105th Guards Composite Aviation Division
      - 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-30) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Pazinich †)
      - 47th Composite Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-34)
      - 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-35)^{[citation needed]}
      - 790th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-35)
  - 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Lieutenant General Vladimir Kravchenko)
    - 112th Separate Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-24) (Colonel Vitaly Tabachnikov †)
    - 319th Separate Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-24)
    - 303rd Composite Aviation Division
      - 18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-25)
      - 23rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-35S)
Southern Group of Forces (YuVO) (Commander: Colonel General Sergey Kuzovlev (from January 2023)) (formerly General of Army Sergei Surovikin), (from June 2022) (Deputy Commander: Lieutenant General Oleg Tsokov †)
- 8th Guards Combined Arms Army, SMD (Lieutenant General Andrey Nikolayevich Mordvichev, Deputy Commander Major General (from April 2022) (replacing Major General Vladimir Petrovich Frolov †)
  - 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Aleksei Gorobets †) (Deputy Commander Colonel Sergey Nikolaevich Kens †) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Yurievich Avramchenko †) (Deputy Commander Colonel Kanat Mukatov †)
    - 33rd Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Agarkov †)
    - 255th Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 944th Self Propelled Artillery Regiment
    - 358th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
  - 150th Motor Rifle Division (Major General Oleg Mityaev †)
    - 102nd Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 103rd Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 68th Tank Regiment
    - 163rd Guards Tank Regiment
    - 381st Self Propelled Artillery Regiment
    - 933rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
  - 238th Artillery Brigade
  - 47th Missile Brigade
  - 78th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
  - 1st Donetsk Army Corps (see below)
  - 2nd Guards Lugansk-Severodonetsk Army Corps (see below)
- 49th Combined Arms Army, SMD (Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev †)
  - 7th Military Base
  - 34th Separate Motor Rifle (Mountain) Brigade
  - 205th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
  - 1st Guards Rocket Brigade
  - 90th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
  - 439th Rocket Artillery Brigade
  - 227th Artillery Brigade (Colonel Aleksei Viktorovich Repin)
  - 32nd Engineer-Sapper Regiment
- 58th Guards Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Denis Lyamin, formerly Major General Ivan Popov, formerly Lieutenant General Mikhail Stepanovich Zusko)
  - 4th Guards Base (Lt Colonel Alexander Olegovich Koshel, head of the information and psychological counteraction, captured)
  - 19th Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Dmitri Ivanovich Uskov)
    - 429th Motor Rifle Regiment
    - [ru]
    - 292nd Self-propelled Artillery Regiment
  - 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division
    - 70th Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Bezlyudko)
    - 71st Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 291st Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Dibir Dibirov †)
    - 78th Motor Rifle Regiment Chechen "Sever-Akhmat" (see above)
    - 50th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
  - 49th Separate Air Assault Brigade VDV
  - 100th Reconnaissance Brigade
  - 136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Roman Demurchiev)
  - 1429th Motor Rifle Regiment
  - 12th Missile Brigade
  - 291st Artillery Brigade
  - [ru]
- 12th Guards Engineering Brigade (Central Military District, Colonel Sergei Porokhnya †, formerly Colonel Denis Kozlov †)
- 29th Railway Brigade
- Airborne Forces
  - 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division VDV, Colonel Aleksandr Kornev, reported as the command element of the Russian task force fighting in the Kherson Oblast on the Mykolaiv direction
    - 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment VDV
    - 108th Guards Air Assault Regiment VDV (Colonel Vitaly Vladimirovich Sukuev †)
    - 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment VDV (Colonel Konstantin Zizievsky †)
    - 1141st Artillery Regiment VDV
    - 1537th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
    - 3rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment VDV
  - 52nd Artillery Brigade
- Black Sea Fleet (Vice Admiral Viktor Nikolayevich Sokolov (from August 2022) replacing Admiral Igor Osipov, Deputy Commander Major General Dmitry Pyatunin (from April 2022) replacing First Rank Captain Andrei Paliy †)
  - Ships
    - 30th Surface Ship Division
      - Cruiser Moskva (sunk)
      - Project 11356 Guided Missile Frigates
        Admiral Essen (damaged),
        
        Admiral Grigorovich,
        
        Admiral Makarov (damaged)
      - Project 1135 Guided Missile Frigates
        Ladny
        
        Pytlivyy
    - 41st Missile Boat Brigade
      - Project 1239 Guided Missile Corvette - Hoverborne Bora-class corvette
        Samum (damaged)
      - Project 1241 Missile ships - Tarantul-class corvette
        ~~Ivanovets~~ (sunk),
        
        4 other corvettes
      - Project 2163 Missile ships - Buyan-class corvette (4)
      - Project 22800 Missile ships - Karakurt-class corvette
        Askold (seriously damaged),
        
        Tsiklon
    - 4th Independent Submarine Brigade
      - Project 636.2 submarines
        ~~Rostov na Donu (B-237)~~ (destroyed),
        
        5 other submarines.
      - Project 877 submarine Alrosa (B-871)
    - 197th Assault Ship Brigade
      - Project 1171 landing ships
        Orsk,
        
        Nikolai Filchenkov,
        
        ~~Saratov~~ (Captain 2nd rank Vladimir Khromchenkov †) (sunk)
      - Project 775 landing ships
        Tsezar Kunikov (damaged) (Captain 3rd rank Aleksandr Chirva †),
        
        Olenegorsky Gornyak (damaged),
        
        Minsk (damaged, possibly destroyed),
        
        ~~Novocherkassk~~ (destroyed).
    - 184th Novorossiysk Coastal Defense Brigade
      - Project 1176 Ondatra-class landing craft D-106 (1 x sunk, 1 x damaged)
      - Project 11770 Serna-class landing craft (2 x sunk, 2 x destroyed) (deployed from the Caspian Flotilla)
      - Project 22160 Patrol Boats
        Vasily Bykov,
        
        Dmitri Rogachov,
        
        Pavel Derzhavin (damaged)
      - Project 205P Stenka-class patrol boat (Tarantul) (sunk)
    - 388th Marine Reconnaissance Point/1229th Naval Intelligence Center
      - Project 02510 High-speed assault boat ~~BK-16E~~ (sunk)
    - 68th Coastal Defense Ship Brigade
      - Project 03160 Raptor-class patrol boat (2 x sunk - 1 damaged (P-342 Yunarmeets Baltiki)) (Captain 2nd rank Alexander Bobrov †)
      - Project 266M Natya-class minesweeper
        Ivan Golubets (damaged),
        
        2 other Natya class minesweepers, 2 x Alexandrit-class minesweepers.
    - 519th Separate Squadron
      - Project 18280 Yury Ivanov-class intelligence ship
        Ivan Khurs (damaged)
    - Auxiliaries
      - Project 22870 rescue tugs
        ~~Vasily Bekh~~ (sunk),
        
        Professor Nikolay Muru (damaged)
      - Project 23120 transport/tug
        Vsevolod Bobrov (damaged)
  - 18th Combined Arms Army
    - 22nd Army Corps - Black Sea Fleet (Major General Arkady Marzoev, removed April 2022, chief of staff Major General Nasbulin †)
      - (Colonel Sergey Storozhenko)
      - 127th Reconnaissance Brigade
      - 291st Artillery Brigade
      - 8th Separate Guards Artillery Regiment (from Black Sea Fleet)
      - 15th Coastal Missile Brigade
      - 103rd Logistics Brigade (Colonel Mikhail Ponomarev, removed April 2022)
      - [ru] - from the Caspian Flotilla
      - 388th Marine Reconnaissance Unit, from the Black Sea Fleet
      - 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel Sergey Kens †, formerly Colonel Alexei Sharov †, Deputy Commander Colonel Aleksei Berngard)
      - 854th Separate Coastal Missile Regiment
      - 11th Coastal Missile Brigade
    - 40th Army Corps
      - 47th Motor Rifle Division
      - 144th Motorized Rifle Brigade
    - 70th Motor Rifle Division
      - 24th Motor Rifle Regiment
      - 28th Motor Rifle Regiment
    - 74th Artillery Brigade
  - Aviation of the Black Sea Fleet (+attached Naval Aviation from elsewhere)
    - 2nd Guards Naval Aviation Division
      - 43rd Marine Assault Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-24, Sukhoi Su-30)
- Aerospace Forces
  - 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Lieutenant General Nikolai Vasilyevich Gostev)
    - 55th Independent Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-24)
    - 1st Guards Composite Aviation Division (Major General Tagir Gadzhiyev)
      - 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-27, Sukhoi Su-57) (Colonel Anatoly Stasyukevich †)
      - 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-30) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Khasanov †)
      - 559th Bomber Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-34)
    - 4th Composite Aviation Division
      - 960th Assault Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-25)
    - 27th Composite Aviation Division
      - 37th Composite Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-24, Sukhoi Su-25)
      - 38th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-27)
      - 39th Guards Separate Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-28, Mil Mi35, Ka-52) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Igorevich Pakholsky †)
    - 20th Air Defense Regiment
Storm-Z penal military units (Commander: Yevgeny Burdinsky)
National Guard of Russia
- OMON
- SOBR

Donetsk People's Republic (Supreme Commander-in-Chief: Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin)
- Donetsk People's Republic People's Militia (Major General )
  - 1st Donetsk Army Corps (Lieutenant General Roman Kutuzov †) (part of Russian armed forces from 31 December 2022) (under command of 8th Combined Arms Army of Southern Military District)
    - 1st Separate Guards Motor Rifle Slavyansk Order of the Republic Brigade
      - 1453rd Regiment
      - 1439th Regiment
    - 5th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade (Major General Pavel Klimenko †)
    - 9th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
    - 110th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
      - Pyatnashka Brigade
    - 114th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade
    - 132nd Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
    - 14th Separate Guards Artillery Brigade "Kalmius"
    - Assorted regiments and battalions
      - Sparta Battalion (Yaroslav Shkurgan †, formerly Vladimir Zhoga †)
      - Somalia Battalion (Timur Kurilkin)
      - 23rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
      - 1454th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
      - 103rd Motor Rifle Regiment
      - 105th Motor Rifle Regiment
      - 107th Motor Rifle Regiment
      - 109th Motor Rifle Regiment
      - 113rd Motor Rifle Regiment
      - 115th Motor Rifle Regiment
      - 95th Motor Rifle Regiment (formerly 123rd Motor Rifle Regiment)
      - 125th Motor Rifle Regiment
      - 127th Motor Rifle Regiment

Luhansk People's Republic (Supreme Commander-in-Chief: Head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik')
- Luhansk People's Republic People's Militia
  - 2nd Guards Lugansk-Severodonetsk Army Corps (part of Russian armed forces from 31 December 2022) (under command of 8th Combined Arms Army of Southern Military District)
    - 4th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade(Colonel Vyacheslav Makarov †)
    - 15th Motor Rifle Brigade
    - 85th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade
    - 88th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade
    - 123rd Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
    - 7th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Vladimirovich Panasyura †)
    - 10th Artillery Brigade
    - Cossack Assault Corps
      - 6th Separate Cossack Motorized Rifle Brigade
        Cossack battalions (Mikhail Kishchik †, Deputy Chief of Staff Lt. Col. Alexander Kalnitsky †)
      - "Don" Cossack Brigade
      - "Siberia" Cossack Brigade
      - "Volga" Cossack Brigade
      - "Terek" Cossack Brigade
    - Assorted regiments and battalions
      - Prizrak Brigade (Yuri Shevchenko)
      - ~~202nd Motor Rifle Regiment~~ (disbanded September 2022)
      - ~~204th Motor Rifle Regiment~~ (disbanded September 2022)
      - 208th "Cossack" Motor Rifle Regiment
      - 254th Motor Rifle Regiment

Ukrainian forces

Senior Ukrainian commanders for the 2022 invasion of Ukraine

Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces

Brigadier-General Andrii Hnatov, Commander of the Joint Operational Command

Ukraine (President: Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine [uk] Volodymyr Zelenskyy)
- Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (Interior Minister: Ihor Klymenko)
  - State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine: Serhii Deineko)
    - 1st Hart Brigade
    - 2nd Podilsk Detachment
    - 3rd Pomsta Brigade
    - 4th Kharkiv Detachment
    - 5th Sumy Detachment
    - 6th Lutsk Detachment
    - 7th Lviv Detachment
    - 8th Berdyansk Detachment
    - 9th Zhytomyr Detachment
    - 10th WATCH Detachment
    - 11th Forpost Brigade
    - 15th Steel Border Brigade
    - 17th Izmail Detachment
    - 24th Mohyliv-Podilskyi Detachment
    - 25th Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Detachment
    - 26th Odesa Detachment
    - 27th Mukachevo Detachment
    - 31st Chernivtsi Detachment
    - 79th Kherson Detachment
    - 94th Chop Detachment
    - 105th Chernihiv Detachment
    - Xth Shostka Detachment
    - Ukrainian Sea Guard
      - 1st Odesa Sea Guard Detachment
      - 18th Izmail Sea Guard Detachment
      - 23rd Mariupol Sea Guard Detachment
    - Ukrainian Border Guard Aviation
      - 24th Odesa Aviation Squadron
      - 26th Kharkiv Aviation Squadron
  - National Guard of Ukraine (Commander: Brigadier General Oleksandr Pivnenko)
    - Ukrainian Air Guard
    - Special Operations Center Omega
    - Special Purpose Unit Typhoon
    - National Guard Headquarters Protection & Support Battalion
    - United Communications Node
    - 16th Artillery Brigade
    - 22nd Foreign Diplomatic Missions Protection Brigade
    - 45th Oleksandr Krasitskyi Regiment
    - Offensive Guard
      - 1st Presidential Operational Brigade
        1st Serhii Kulchytskyi Battalion
      - 3rd Spartan Brigade
      - 4th Rapid Reaction Brigade
      - 12th Azov Assault Brigade (Commander: Colonel Denys Prokopenko)
      - 13th Khartiia Brigade
      - 14th Chervona Kalyna Brigade
      - 15th Kara Dag Brigade
    - Public Order Protection Guards
      - 11th Hrushevsky Brigade
        18th Public Order Protection Battalion
      - 19th Public Protection Regiment
      - 21st Kalnyshevsky Brigade
      - 23rd Khortytsia Brigade
      - 25th Prince Askold Brigade
      - 31st Oleksandr Radievskyi Brigade
    - Transport Protection Guards
      - 19th Convoy Battalion
      - 27th Pechersk Brigade
      - 34th Convoy Battalion
    - Combined Guard
      - 2nd Galician Brigade
        15th Separate Battalion
      - 5th Slobozhansk Brigade
      - 17th Poltavska Brigade
      - 18th Sloviansk Brigade
        2nd Special Operations Donbas Battalion (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Polishchuk)
      - 26th Separate Battalion
      - 27th Separate Regiment
      - 32nd Volyn Battalion
      - 34th Kherson Regiment
      - 35th Sumysky Regiment
      - 40th Danylo Nechai Regiment
        13th Separate Battalion
      - 50th Vysochan Regiment
        4th Kruk Battalion
      - 75th Zhytomyr Battalion
    - State Objects Protection Guards
      - 2nd Shostkinsky Regiment
      - 4th Pavlograd Regiment
    - CBRN Guards
      - 1st NPP Protection Battalion
      - 3rd NPP Protection Battalion
      - 4th NPP Protection Battalion
      - 5th NPP Protection Battalion
    - ~~12th Operational Brigade~~ (Disbanded in late 2023)
  - Special Tasks Patrol Police
    - Khyzhak Brigade
    - Liut Brigade
      - Safari Regiment
      - Tsunami Regiment
        Tavr Battalion
      - Luhansk Regiment
      - Dnipro-1 Regiment
        3rd Aerorozvidka Group
        
        4th Kryvbas Company
        
        6th Krym Company
      - Myrotvorets Battalion
        4th Tornado Company
      - Skif Battalion
      - Zakhid Battalion
        Svityaz Company
        
        Bohdan Company
      - Enei Battalion
        Sviatoslav Company
      - Shtorm Battalion
    - Kyiv Regiment
      - Sich Battalion
    - Lviv Battalion
    - Vinnytsia Battalion
    - Chernihiv Battalion
    - Ternopil Battalion
    - Kherson Battalion
    - Poltava Battalion
    - Sumy Company
    - East Company
  - National Police of Ukraine (Chief: Police General 2nd Rank Ihor Klymenko)
    - KORD Brigade
- Security Service of Ukraine (Head of the Security Service of Ukraine: Brigadier General Vasyl Malyuk)
  - Alpha Group
  - State Special Communications Service of Ukraine
- Irregular civilian volunteers
  - Paramilitary groups
    - Ukrainian People's Self-Defence
  - Volunteer NGOS
    - Aerorozvidka (Commander: Inna Honchar)
  - Partisans
    - Yellow Ribbon
    - Popular Resistance of Ukraine
    - Berdiansk Partisan Army
- Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (Minister of Defence Rustem Umierov)
  - Chief Directorate of Intelligence (Major General Kyrylo Budanov)
    - Defense Intelligence Aviation
      - Special Purpose UAV Unit "Wings"
    - Special Purpose USV Unit "Group 13"
    - 10th Special Purpose Detachment
    - Shaman Battalion
    - Kraken Regiment (Commander: Konstantin V. Nemichev)
    - Artan Unit
      - Revanche Tactical Group
    - Kabul 9
    - Tymur Special Operations Detachment
      - 2nd Special Operations Detachment
      - Aratta Battalion
      - Sonechko Battalion
      - Stuhna Battalion
      - NOBODY Battalion
      - Bratstvo Battalion
      - Chimera Unit
      - "Paragon Company" Detachment
      - Black Winter Group
    - Military Unit A3449
      - Freedom of Russia Legion
      - Russian Volunteer Corps (Commander: Denis Kapustin)
      - Sibir Battalion (Commander Vladislav Ammosov)
      - Karelian National Battalion
      - Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion (Commander: Adam Osmayev)
      - Separate Special Purpose Battalion (Commander Hadzji-Murad Zumso, Deputy commander Khavazhi Amaev)
      - Belarusian Volunteer Corps
      - German Volunteer Corps
      - ~~Terror Battalion~~ (Disbanded in November 2024)
      - Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment (Commander: Dzianis Prokharaŭ)
      - Imam Shamil Dagestan Battalion
      - Polish Volunteer Corps
      - Georgian Legion (Commander: Mamuka Mamulashvili)
      - NOMAD Unit
  - Ukrainian Armed Forces (Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces: General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Lieutenant General Yevhen Moisiuk)