• The 7th Military Base in InformNapalm publications

  • Combat Crews of 2S3 “Akatsiya” of the 7th Military Base Identified along the Border with Ukraine. 10/05/2014
  • ‘Donetsk Express’ – identification of Russian military equipment and weaponry, transferred to Donbas. (RU) 10/06/2014
  • Medical Detachment of the 7th Military Base from Abkhazia Identified near the Border with Ukraine. 10/13/2014
  • Rocket artillery of the 7th Military Base of the Russian occupation forces from Abkhazia on the border with Donbas. (RU) 12/18/2014
  • From tangerine paradise to Ukrainian hell: Russian contract soldiers pressed to fight in Ukraine (RU) 02/04/2015
  • Servicemen of the 7th Russian Military Base from Abkhazia receive medals for fighting in Donbas (RU) 03/02/2015
  • Conscripts of the 7th Russian Military Base massively recruited to become contract soldiers for the “Ukrainian missions”  03/06/2015
  • “Courageous Mihos” – a scout of the 7th Military Base, holder of medal For Courage. 03/18/2015
  • More soldiers from 7th Military Base received Combat Medals after temporary duties in Ukraine 05/27/2015
  • ‘Cinderellas’ with Self-propelled Artillery Systems or How Russian Contract Servicemen are Posing as ‘Self-defence’ 07/02/2015
  • The Сover Story of the ‘Former’ Soldier of the 7th Russian Base Does not Hold Water  07/02/2015
  • Massive Deployment of the Russian Troops And Equipment from the Occupied Abkhazia Is Registered 09/23/2015
  • Russia Deploys the Military Equipment of the 7th Base to Rostov Oblast 09/24/2015
  • Russian Contract Soldier from the 7th Base Fights as ‘DPR’ Militant 09/25/2015
  • ‘Bored silly’: the Russian Invaders’ Games in Donbas 01/10/2016
  • ‘Double Strike’ to the Russian Officers from the Southern Military District 02/10/2016
  • Journey of Russian Occupant: Gudauta – Rostov – Donbas – Khmeimim 04/03/2016
  • The Dynasty of Russian War Criminals: Biographic Narrative of the Invader 08/15/2016
  • Emperor’s new clothes – or Putin exposed 11/30/2016
  • Updates on the Rostov reserve of the “Novorossian” army 12/15/2016
  • Documents revealing personnel of another Russian BTG on a “Rostov-Ukrainian mission” 10/27/2016
  • 21 of 35: Russian artillerymen of the 7th Military Base involved in shelling of Ukraine identified 11/15/2016
  • Love Story 3: Love adventures of Russian occupier 21.11.2016
  • Russian scout from 7th Military Base given away by Bull Terrier from Horlivka 11/28/2016
  • Identification of Russian 7th military base scouts who fought in Ukraine 12/30/2016
  • Russian Kalmyk soldiers “got lost ” in the steppes of Ukraine 12/25/2016
  • From ‘hybrid’ soldier to cadet: Russian Military Intervention in Ukraine (RU) 01/06/2017
  • Recipient of Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” and other Donbas veterans from the 7th Military Base 01/22/2017

  Databases of identified Russian military personnel and evidence of their involvement in the fighting in Ukraine on the side of the Russian-terrorist forces are available here: https://informnapalm.org/en/category/top-investigations.

Personnel and armament of the 7th Military Base of the Russian occupation forces
The 7th Krasnodar Red Banner Order of Kutuzov and the Red Star Military Base, military unit 09332 (stationed in Gudauta, occupied Abkhazia, Georgia), includes:

Structure
– Command;
– Four mechanized infantry battalions;
– Sniper company;
– Tank battalion;
– Two self-propelled artillery battalions and one battery of towed howitzers;
– Rocket artillery battalion;
– Antitank artillery battalion;
– Antiaircraft missile battalion and an antiaircraft artillery missile battalion (parts of the so-called Anti-aircraft battalion group of the 7th Military Base);
– Reconnaissance battalion;
– UAV company;
– Engineer battalion;
– NBC protection company;
– Control (communications) battalion;
– Electronic warfare company;
– Control and artillery reconnaissance battery (of the artillery commander);
– Control and radar reconnaissance platoon (of air defense commander);
– Control Platoon (of the reconnaissance commander);
– Maintenance battalion;
– Logistics battalion;
– Headquarters company;
– Medical company;
– Military instructors platoon;
– Training simulator platoon;
– Training range;
– Brass band.
The military base also includes a so-called aviation command office providing ground support for periodic flights of the Russian Airforce planes to the airfield in Gudauta. Аn anti-aircraft missile regiment (formerly the 100th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, military unit 90100), consisting of 2 SAM battalions in Agudzera and Primorskoye, which have 8 units of S-300 SAM’s on combat alert (make part of the so-called anti-aircraft battalion group of the 7th Military Base). The base also has an electronic technical unit with alert facilities deployed on the airfield of Sukhumi Babushara Airport.
Armament
– T-90A and T-72B3 MBTs – 41 pc. (according to other sources 51 pc.);
– BTR-82AM and BTR-80 armored personnel carriers (APC) – 156 pcs.;
– MT-LB light multi-purpose armored towing vehicles – 15 pcs.;
– BM-21 Grad MLRS – 18 pcs.;
– 2S3M Akatsiya 152-mm self-propelled howitzers – 36 pcs.;
– D-30 122-mm self-propelled howitzers – 6 pcs.;
– 2S12 Sani 120-mm mortars – 18 pcs.;
– MT-12 Rapira 100mm anti-tank guns – 12 pcs.;
– Shturm-S self-propelled anti-tank missile systems – 12 pcs.;
– BRDM-2 armored reconnaissance vehicles – 4 pcs.;
– 9A33BM2(3) Osa SAM’s – 12 pcs.;
– 9A34(35) Strela-10 SAM’s on armored vehicle mounts – 6 pcs.;
– 2S6M Tunguska self-propelled anti-aircraft guns – 6 pcs.;
– 9K38 Igla man portable surface-to-air missiles – 27 pcs.
The armament of the base also includes S-300PM SAM launchers – 16 pcs. In addition, in accordance with the agreement on joint armed forces between the Russian Federation and unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia signed in Moscow on November 21, 2015, two mechanized infantry battalions, artillery and aviation groups, as well as a separate special operations group have been attached by Abkhazia to the 7th Military Base.
Except for a few of our additions, this note is based on the data from milkavkaz.

This publication was prepared on the basis of an OSINT investigation of InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community. Author Irakli Komaxidze

Translated by Evgeniy Kalashnik

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