der stellvertretende Leiter des Kontrollzentrums des Luftlandetruppenkommandos Vadim Dobryakov, der Leiter der operativen Managementabteilung des Luftlandetruppenhauptquartiers Alexey Koblov und der operative Dienstoffizier des Luftlandetruppenkommandos Alexander Galkin

Airborne Colonel Петраш Валерий Петрович (Petrash Valery Petrovich), commander of the 5th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, 98th Guards Airborne Division, was eliminated in Ukraine on 19 September ’23.

Meduza
Generalleutnant Vladimir Sveridov, der ehem. Kommandeur der Flugabwehr and Luftwaffe der 6. Armee wurde zusammen mit seiner Frau tot in seiner Wohnung gefunden
Den oben genannten Posten hat er wohl nur bis 2009 bekleidet.

https://t.me/meduzalive/95219

Oberst Andrey Melnikov, Pionierchef (einer Feldarmee?) ist in der Ukraine gefallen. Die gemeldeten Verluste von Obersten nimmt spührbar zu.
https://twitter.com/KilledInUkraine/status/...6ERvpw&s=19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WMIqVldZA
Er hat vor kurzem allerdings das schlechte Training und die Bedingungen der Russischen Piloten kritisiert und wohl auch gesagt, dass es unter früheren Präsidenten besser war.

"Part-time army." Who controls the Russian irregular forces fighting in Ukraine? BBC research
Since the beginning of the war, Russian authorities have been trying to figure out how to manage dozens of disparate volunteer units that are not formally part of the Russian army. It seems that, as a response, the country's military leadership decided to unite them under larger structures, the main ones being the army's BARS system and the private military company Redut. The BBC tells how Cossacks, neo-Nazis, football fans, foreign mercenaries, veterans of the war in Donbass, ex-prisoners and ordinary Russians who decided to go to the front are fighting in Ukraine under these “brands�.

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Volunteers recruited for the war through military registration and enlistment offices were mainly distributed either into volunteer battalions created under the supervision of the regions (the most famous of them is the Akhmat battalion from Chechnya), or those same BARS detachments. The first mentions of numbered units with this name appeared in the Russian media and social networks just a few months after the start of the invasion.

But the recruitment of volunteers took place so actively and spontaneously that it ultimately led to confusion, and dozens of volunteer units appeared at the front, fighting in an unclear status. Some of them were eventually brought into the BARS system - sometimes retroactively. As a result, by the fall of 2023, the number of BARS grew to several dozen. They are predominantly fought not by “reservists�, who were invited to BARS even before the war, but by ordinary volunteers who wished to go to the front after the start of the invasion.

[...]

Now there are more than thirty BARS (their official register, of course, does not exist). Service in such structures varies greatly from unit to unit. Including because some BARS have not only the support of the Ministry of Defense, but also individual curators - among high-ranking officials, regional authorities and business. Some of the BARS unite under common leadership and fight together. Also, groups that started fighting in Ukraine nine years ago and are controlled by the country’s military leadership are retroactively included in the structure of BARS.

Several BARS are united under the “brand� of the Union of Donbass Volunteers (UDV). Now the Union includes battalions BARS-23 (Eagle, also referred to as BARS-9), BARS-20 (Thunder) and BARS-13 (Russian World, formerly Rurik), all of them are actively participate in the invasion of Ukraine.


[...]

It is noteworthy that BARS-20 (“Thunder�), apparently, at least last year, actively recruited employees of the Transneft company. On YouTube you can find videos with titles like “Dead Heroes Bars 20.Transneft. Everlasting memory". The BBC was able to identify several fighters mentioned in these videos. At least three men actually worked for Transneft, including in security. The dates of death of the fighters mainly refer to September last year - in those days, BARS-20 fought in the Kherson region, where the Ukrainian counter-offensive, which turned out to be extremely successful, was then going on. Currently this unit does not have any noticeable activity.

Another military structure was brought into the BARS system, which fought in the Donbass even before 2022 - the operational-combat tactical formation "Cascade" (now known as BARS "Cascade"), created in 2017. This BARS, which is mainly engaged in aerial reconnaissance, can be called elite. It is personally supervised by Andrey Turchak, Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party. First Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko went to the front to visit the soldiers from Cascade .

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“We are Cossacks. Participation in the SVO was a matter of time"
At least some of the BARS are connected with the All-Russian Cossack Society. For example, three such battalions (numbered 1, 11 and 16) are united into the Kuban Cossack brigade , where volunteers are sent through the Kuban Cossack Army. It includes attack aircraft and, for example, drone operators. “We are Cossacks. By family, by blood. Participation in the SVO was a matter of time. We understood internally, we prepared internally,� a Kuban Cossack from the BARS-11 detachment told Kuban television in mid-October.

Replenishment of BARS-18 (“Vympel�) is provided by the All-Great Don Army. Cossacks from Primorye are sent to BARS-22 (Tiger), and from Yekaterinburg to BARS-15 (Ermak), from Orenburg to BARS-6 (Forstadt).

But such units fight not only in conjunction with those supported by the All-Russian Cossack Society. For example, the Kuban Cossack brigade with BARS-3 and BARS-10 units is part of the so-called Volunteer Shock Brigade. Its creator is the former head of Roscosmos, now a senator from occupied Zaporozhye Dmitry Rogozin. In addition to the BARS, the brigade includes the Tsar’s Wolves military-technical center created by Rogozin. It consists of military advisers who train, for example, drone operators who are then sent to fight in Ukraine. The size of this association is unknown.

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“From boots to hats - everything is Sergei Valerievich�
Since February 2022, Crimea has actually had its own army. Numerous regular units of the Russian army have been stationed on the annexed peninsula since 2014 - many of them took part in the invasion of Ukraine from the very first hours. But over the past year and a half of the war, these forces have grown in number with a large number of volunteer fighters. Basically, they are formed into a structure that, under the official cover of contracts with BARS, is concentrated around one person - the leader of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov.

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How Redut became the main Russian PMC
The abbreviation “PMC�, a private military company, is known in Russia primarily thanks to Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner group. In fact, there are other military formations that (at least in the media) have been assigned this status. The authorities have repeatedly discussed the legalization of PMCs, but so far, from a formal point of view, the creation of private military companies is directly prohibited by Russian law.

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For the first time, a private military company with the name “Redoubt� (also known as “Shield�) became known in connection with the war in Syria. Unlike Wagner, there she was mainly engaged not in participating in hostilities, but in protecting the facilities of the Stroytransgaz corporation of Gennady Timchenko, an entrepreneur close to Vladimir Putin. The former “Minister of Defense� of the self-proclaimed DPR, Igor Strelkov, called him the owner of “Redut�.

Immediately after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, the media began to write that mercenaries of the Redut group were taking part in battles as part of the Russian group. It is difficult to say whether they are connected with the formation that once guarded oil facilities in Syria. But it is clear that now PMC mercenaries with this name play a much larger role on the battlefield.

The Insider publication (has the status of a “foreign agent�) wrote in May of this year that the initiator of the creation of “Redoubt� in its current form and its curator was Vladimir Alekseev, the first deputy head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. This department, which deals with military intelligence, is better known by its old name - GRU.

Journalists from Sistema and Schemes had at their disposal documents and evidence that indicate that both Redoubt and the Russian Volunteer Corps were created on the initiative of the Ministry of Defense and are completely controlled by it.

The number of Redoubt is unknown. The fighters of this PMC actively participated in the invasion from the very beginning, and in recent months the composition of Redoubt has grown even more - many units fighting in Ukraine have been brought into this structure. On social networks you can find numerous advertisements for the recruitment of mercenaries to Redoubt, as well as photo and video evidence of their presence at the front. According to some evidence, Redut recruits not only Russians, but also, for example, citizens from the CIS countries.

It is unclear who exactly controls Redoubt.

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“Right now we are partisans�
Reduta units do not have official contracts with the army or the Russian National Guard - like volunteers from BARS and regional battalions. Recruits are offered to enter into a civil contract for a period of six months - essentially sign a regular contract to work with a certain legal entity.

From the point of view of the law, such people are neither military personnel nor volunteers - the presence of Redoubt mercenaries at the front is not regulated in any way. This means that they are not entitled to the numerous benefits that the authorities use to lure Russians to war.

After six months, Redoubt fighters can either sign a new contract or quit and return home - as is the case with those who fight in BARS.

Volunteers entering Redut are promised a salary of 220 thousand rubles per month “upon completion of tasks� (those who have not yet reached the front are paid 110 thousand rubles). They most often pay in cash, but you can also agree on a transfer to a card - in many Redut divisions, recruits are asked to open an account with VTB.

PMC recruits recruits without HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis. They are promised training for two to three weeks at training grounds in Russia or annexed territories and supplies. To get there, you just need to respond to the ad and then come to the collection point with the necessary certificates and documents. Some Redoubt recruiters, with whom the BBC communicated under the guise of potential recruits, offered to go to training sites almost the next day after the conversation. Taking into account the fact that training lasts only a couple of weeks, this means that a mercenary can find himself at the front in less than a month after the first contact with a PMC.

At Redoubt they pay 1 million rubles for a minor injury, 2 million rubles for a moderate injury, and 3 million rubles for a severe injury. In the event of the death of a fighter (whom Redoubt calls “specialists�), his family will receive 5 million rubles.

As the BBC has learned, dozens of formations calling themselves volunteer and recruiting Russians for war are in fact connected with Redoubt (this is confirmed by the investigation of Sistema and Schemes). The composition of PMCs is constantly growing, so the list provided by the BBC cannot be considered exhaustive. If the authorities mainly introduce units with well-known curators into the BARS system, then the Ministry of Defense assigns more “marginal� structures to Redoubt.

Most often, in advertisements inviting people to go to the front, recruiters do not advertise that they are invited to fight in the Redoubt. But those who respond to these advertisements are quickly made clear that in fact they are being asked to become not official military personnel, but civilians fighting outside the legal framework.

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“People come after fights in stadiums�
Russians with extreme right-wing views are also fighting as part of Redoubt. For example, those recruited into the Espanyol battalion, organized by Russian football hooligans. Neither the media nor the Russian sports community hides the existence of such a battalion.

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The BARS-35 “Skif� detachment, part of the “Terek� brigade, which is part of the Cossack Volunteer Assault Corps, is also regularly mentioned there. The unit’s website states that you can join both through the BARS system (that is, officially through the Ministry of Defense) and through Redoubt. “BARS is a contract with the Ministry of Defense, but Redoubt is not quite like that. [In the latter] they pay a little more, 10-15 thousand, but you get the benefit of the social package,� a recruiter for the Skif detachment told the BBC. “Are you going for the first time? I would recommend BARS. You can continue along the Redoubt, having veterans’ cards, social benefits, all that crap in your hands.� Otherwise, as the recruiter noted, relatives will have “a lot of ordeals to prove that you are not a camel.�

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“They took me away from the colony and at night in the hangar they let me sign a new contract.�
“Redut� has a unit where Russians who left penal colonies for the war are distributed. At the beginning of the year, they were mainly recruited into Wagner, but since the spring of 2023, this function has been transferred to the Ministry of Defense.

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Original auf Russisch, Ãœbersetzung war mit Google Translate

Rechtlich wird das Personal der RF-Streitkräfte in mindestens fünf Kategorien eingeteilt:
- Wehrpflichtige mit einer Dienstzeit von 1 Jahr (147.000 Menschen wurden im Frühjahr 2023 einberufen, 130.000 Menschen wurden im Herbst 2023 einberufen , gleichzeitig werden zum Zeitpunkt der Wahlen 277.000 Wehrpflichtige im aktiven Militärdienst sein), sie nehmen nicht an Feindseligkeiten teil;
- auf unbestimmte Zeit mobilisiert, direkt an Feindseligkeiten beteiligt (300.000 Menschen);
- Vertragsfreiwillige mit einer im Vertrag festgelegten festen Dienstzeit nehmen direkt an Feindseligkeiten teil (335.000 Menschen).
Abteilungen ehemaliger Häftlinge „Sturm Z“ sind eigentlich „Strafen“, wenn nicht nach Status, dann nach dem System ihres Einsatzes – in den gefährlichsten Gebieten. Ihre Zahl ist unbekannt, es kann jedoch davon ausgegangen werden, dass es mindestens 15.000 sind.
Die „BARS“-Abteilungen – die Special Combat Army Reserve – sind hinsichtlich Status und Unterordnung völlig unverständliche Freiwilligenformationen, die eher wie Banden von „Makhnovisten“ als wie die reguläre Armee aussehen. Ihre Zahl schwankt ebenfalls um die 15.000..

https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/...Mgv95A&s=19

On 28 November of 2023 the deputy of the commander of 14th Army corps, General Mayor Zavadskiy Vladimir, killed on mine.

Ärgerlich. Kommt aber vor, dass auch Mitarbeitende höherer Stäbe vom Weg abkommen. Mindestens ein General der gD Wehrmacht ist mit seinem Storch auch in einer Minensperre gelandet (Russland?).

Mindestens ein General der gD Wehrmacht ist mit seinem Storch auch in einer Minensperre gelandet (Russland?).

Wenn der Sperrplan lückenhaft ist, kann das durchaus passieren.

Das Verteidigungsministerium der Russischen Föderation erklärte, dass eine Mobilisierung im Zusammenhang mit dem Dekret nicht geplant sei und dass der Entwurf der Bürger für den Militärdienst nicht wesentlich zunehmen werde.

Das Dekret wurde aufgrund der wachsenden Bedrohung Russlands im Zusammenhang mit der SVO und der anhaltenden Ausweitung der NATO unterzeichnet, berichtet RIA Novosti.

"Eine zusätzliche Erhöhung der Kampfzusammensetzung und -stärke der RF-Streitkräfte ist eine angemessene Reaktion auf die aggressiven Aktivitäten der NATO", schreibt die Agentur.

Etwa ein Drittel oder mehr dieser 137.000 Menschen sind wahrscheinlich Freiwillige, die in die sogenannten „austauschbaren“ Bataillone eingetreten sind oder als Teil davon dienen werden

https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/...Mgv95A&s=19

On 28 November of 2023 the deputy of the commander of 14th Army corps, General Mayor Zavadskiy Vladimir, killed on mine.

Die Tatsache, dass ich keine Sympathie für das PMC "Wagner" hegte, weil die Kombination aus Exterritorialität und dem berüchtigten "Unternehmensgeist" zu den berühmten Ereignissen in der LNR führte, die mit einer Reihe von Raubüberfällen und Entführungen verbunden waren, die von Wagner-Kommandos arrangiert wurden, hat mich nie daran gehindert, die überdurchschnittliche Effizienz ihrer Arbeit in den Streitkräften der RF anzuerkennen.
Aber diese Effizienz hatte nichts Magisches an sich. Es handelte sich einfach um eine Armee, deren Ausrüstung nicht gestohlen wurde, deren normale Kommunikationsmittel nicht gestohlen wurden und deren Drohnen nicht gestohlen wurden. "Wagner" war die Armee der Russischen Föderation, die wir anstelle einer bestimmten Anzahl von Palästen auf dem Territorium der Russischen Föderation und darüber hinaus, einer bestimmten Anzahl von Wohnungen, die bis oben hin mit Kubikmetern von Geld gefüllt sind, hätten haben sollen.
Keine Zauberei. Es ist nur so, dass man, wenn man die Entschädigung für die 200er und 300er aus dem eigenen Budget und nicht aus dem der Regierung bezahlt, ein berechtigtes Interesse daran hat, die Kosten niedrig zu halten. Und wenn es billiger ist, eine Drohne zu kaufen, als Menschen ohne Drohne in den Himmel zu schicken, wird man eine Drohne kaufen. Wenn es billiger ist, Kommunikationsmittel zu kaufen, werden Sie Kommunikationsmittel kaufen. Und so weiter. Einfach ein Geschäft.
Schließlich war dies eine Armee, in die ein Haufen fähiger Militärs aus dem Verteidigungsministerium, aus Vetternwirtschaft, Debilismus und Korruption geflohen ist.

Der Feind, der sowohl die Möglichkeit hat, Truppen zu rotieren als auch Munition zu liefern, tauscht seine „Mobics“ und „Territorialkräfte“ gegen „Wagners“ und andere „Sturmtruppen“. Unter den schreienden Schlagzeilen über „Frontdurchbrüche“ unserer Truppen gibt es durchaus vorhersehbare Nachrichten, dass unsere Truppen nach der Einnahme der nächsten feindlichen „Festung“ die nächste Verteidigungslinie dahinter entdeckt haben, und es ist gut, wenn sie es nicht geschafft haben in einen Feuersack. Langsam, mit viel Blut, basiert die durch „Angriffe“ bewegte Verteidigung des Feindes auf Artillerie, MLRS und Mörsern, die mithilfe von UAVs und bodengestützten Überwachungskameras mit Schussdaten versorgt werden. Die Verluste des Feindes an wertvollen Militärspezialisten, die für diese Verteidigung sorgen – Bahnwärter, Artilleristen, UAV-Operatoren – sind minimal, ebenso wie Verluste an Ausrüstung.
(...)
Und die wirklich schlechte Nachricht ist nicht, dass "die Ukrainer moderne Panzer und BMPs erhalten werden", sondern dass die Ukrps wissen, wie man sie richtig einsetzt und die Organisationsstrukturen, die sie zu diesem Zweck fleißig aufbauen. Gleichzeitig scheint unser Militär alles zu tun, um sicherzustellen, dass unsere ähnlichen Strukturen, die von den Schlachten angeschlagen sind, keineswegs das Niveau der Kampffähigkeit erreichen, das ihnen die Durchführung erfolgreicher Manöveroperationen ermöglichen würde.

sondern dass die Ukrps wissen, wie man sie richtig einsetzt und die Organisationsstrukturen, die sie zu diesem Zweck fleißig aufbauen.