{"id":2044,"date":"2014-11-04T22:33:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T20:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:36:42","slug":"detachment-self-propelled-artillery-akatsiya-138th-motorized-rifle-brigade-located-ukrainian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/detachment-self-propelled-artillery-akatsiya-138th-motorized-rifle-brigade-located-ukrainian-border\/","title":{"rendered":"A Detachment of Self Propelled Artillery \u201cAkatsiya\u201d of the 138th Motorized Rifle Brigade Located on the Ukrainian Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have obtained evidence of the presence of another artillery detachment of the Russian Armed Forces\u00a0on the Ukrainian border, this time from the 138 Motorized Rifle Brigade (MRB), Military Unit 02511, Western Military District. The Brigade&#8217;s place of permanent deployment is Kamenka, Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2045\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-1024x730.jpg\" alt=\"138-y-sau\" width=\"1024\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-1024x730.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau.jpg 1092w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The artillery detachment of the 138<sup>th<\/sup> MRB was redeployed to Ukrainian border in the second half of October 2014, presumably as part of a rotation that took place to substitute other artillery groups.\u00a0 Over the October period partial withdrawal of some units from Rostov oblast was recorded. Units identified as withdrawn over this period were the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Separate MRB (Vladikavkaz), and the 15<sup>th<\/sup> Separate MRB \u201cpeacekeeping forces\u201d (Samara), amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>The camp of `Kamenka artillerymen\u2019 is located in the fields near the Sambek &#8211; Uspenskoe route, South-West of Pokrovskoe village, Rostov oblast. This unit is armed with 152 mm 2S3 \u201cAkatsiya\u201d self-propelled artillery (SPA). While the size of the detachment is unknown, the detachment probably consists of a battery of up to 6-8 artillery guns. It may happen that besides with SPA vehicles and crews there are other sub-units of this brigade in the same camp. The location of the camp has not been chosen by coincidence. Though it is situated some distance from the border, at the same time it is not so far from it. From this point rapid redeployment is possible in the directions of the strategic conflict points \u2013 in other words to Mariupol as well as to Donetsk or Lugansk. We have noted that other Russian units, including an artillery detachment of the 136<sup>th<\/sup> MRB (Dagestan), have also been deployed to field camps in this area.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-teg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2047\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-teg.jpg\" alt=\"138-y-teg\" width=\"1023\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-teg.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-teg-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-teg-768x640.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quick overview of the 138<sup>th<\/sup> MRB: The Brigade traces its history to the 45th Guards Rifle Division of the former Leningrad Military District (reorganized as the Western Military District since 2010). Unit manpower is about 4000 troops. The Brigade includes 3 motorized-rifle battalions, an armored battalion, 2 self-propelled howitzer artillery battalions, a rocket artillery battalion, an anti-tank artillery battalion, an air defense artillery battalion, an anti-aircraft artillery missile battalion, and various logistical units.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-na-poz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2046\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-na-poz.jpg\" alt=\"138-y-sau-na-poz\" width=\"957\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-na-poz.jpg 957w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-na-poz-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-na-poz-768x653.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-v-pole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2048\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-v-pole.jpg\" alt=\"138-y-v-pole\" width=\"962\" height=\"817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-v-pole.jpg 962w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-v-pole-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-v-pole-768x652.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a>The material was prepared by Irakli Komaxidze<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Tetyana Mykhailiv<\/p>\n<p>Original source (Russian):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/2502-sau-akatsyya-138-j-motostrelkovoj-brygady-s-lenyngradskoj-oblasty-na-granytse-s-ukraynoj\/\">https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/2502-sau-akatsyya-138-j-motostrelkovoj-brygady-s-lenyngradskoj-oblasty-na-granytse-s-ukraynoj\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have obtained evidence of the presence of another artillery detachment of the Russian Armed Forces\u00a0on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[528,5],"tags":[167,240],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-terrorussians","tag-russian-armed-forces","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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The Brigade's place of permanent deployment is Kamenka, Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2045\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-1024x730.jpg\" alt=\"138-y-sau\" width=\"1024\" height=\"730\" \/><\/a>\n\n<!--more-->The artillery detachment of the 138<sup>th<\/sup> MRB was redeployed to Ukrainian border in the second half of October 2014, presumably as part of a rotation that took place to substitute other artillery groups.\u00a0 Over the October period partial withdrawal of some units from Rostov oblast was recorded. Units identified as withdrawn over this period were the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Separate MRB (Vladikavkaz), and the 15<sup>th<\/sup> Separate MRB \u201cpeacekeeping forces\u201d (Samara), amongst others.\n\nThe camp of `Kamenka artillerymen\u2019 is located in the fields near the Sambek - Uspenskoe route, South-West of Pokrovskoe village, Rostov oblast. This unit is armed with 152 mm 2S3 \u201cAkatsiya\u201d self-propelled artillery (SPA). While the size of the detachment is unknown, the detachment probably consists of a battery of up to 6-8 artillery guns. It may happen that besides with SPA vehicles and crews there are other sub-units of this brigade in the same camp. The location of the camp has not been chosen by coincidence. Though it is situated some distance from the border, at the same time it is not so far from it. From this point rapid redeployment is possible in the directions of the strategic conflict points \u2013 in other words to Mariupol as well as to Donetsk or Lugansk. We have noted that other Russian units, including an artillery detachment of the 136<sup>th<\/sup> MRB (Dagestan), have also been deployed to field camps in this area.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-teg.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2047\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-teg.jpg\" alt=\"138-y-teg\" width=\"1023\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a>\n\nA quick overview of the 138<sup>th<\/sup> MRB: The Brigade traces its history to the 45th Guards Rifle Division of the former Leningrad Military District (reorganized as the Western Military District since 2010). Unit manpower is about 4000 troops. The Brigade includes 3 motorized-rifle battalions, an armored battalion, 2 self-propelled howitzer artillery battalions, a rocket artillery battalion, an anti-tank artillery battalion, an air defense artillery battalion, an anti-aircraft artillery missile battalion, and various logistical units.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-na-poz.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2046\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-sau-na-poz.jpg\" alt=\"138-y-sau-na-poz\" width=\"957\" height=\"814\" \/><\/a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-v-pole.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2048\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/138-y-v-pole.jpg\" alt=\"138-y-v-pole\" width=\"962\" height=\"817\" \/><\/a>The material was prepared by Irakli Komaxidze\n\nTranslated by Tetyana Mykhailiv\n\nOriginal source (Russian):\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/2502-sau-akatsyya-138-j-motostrelkovoj-brygady-s-lenyngradskoj-oblasty-na-granytse-s-ukraynoj\/\">https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/2502-sau-akatsyya-138-j-motostrelkovoj-brygady-s-lenyngradskoj-oblasty-na-granytse-s-ukraynoj\/<\/a>","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6811,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/6811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}