Based on our own investigations we can assume that the Russian command uses the battalion and company tactical groups in the undeclared war against Ukraine. These groups are based at the Ukrainian border and are used to enforce the DNR\/LNR’s illegal armed formations in critical moments.<\/p>\n
Mainly these are the servicemen of the Southern Military District, but soldiers from other districts can be met as well. The Russian soldiers also play role of the\u00a0coordinators, counselors, and officers who provide\u00a0the coordination and communication\u00a0with the regular army of Russia. The Russian contract privates and sergeants occupy the positions of instructors, specialists and junior command personnel (rocket and tubed\u00a0artillery crew commanders, communication crews, scouts, electronic suppression, snipers, etc).<\/p>\n
Among the other previously disclosed military units of the Southern Military District which act as the parts of the DNR\/LNR armed formations (‘Somali<\/a>‘,’People’s Militia<\/a>‘, etc) we can list the following ones:<\/p>\n Russia’s GRU special forces units:<\/strong><\/p>\n The most of the illegal armed formations’ equipment is\u00a0transferred from Russia and is not a ‘war trophy’. It is mainly the outdated weaponry and equipment which is sent to ‘Novorossiya’ instead of being\u00a0sent to the storage bases after the Russian military units rearming. This includes the\u00a0infantry fighting vehicles (BMP-1 and BMP-2),\u00a0armored personnel carriers (BTR-80), auxiliary armored tracked vehicles (MT-LB), BM-21 rocket launchers, 2S1 ‘Gvozdika’ mortars, and so on – this has been mentioned a lot of times in our OSINT investigations. Besides using\u00a0the old weaponry, Russia also conducts the testing of the latest equipment units in Donbas (electronic suppression, small arms).<\/p>\n\n
\n