List of Russian military equipment and detachments deployed in Crimea, March 16,

2014

List of Russian military equipment – spotted at March 17, 2014

6 MLR BM-21 - at least one battery;

12 MLR 9K57 Uragan and 10 reloading vehicles 9T452, from Ingushetia (58 Army, 291st Artillery

Brigade, Southern Military District);

12 152mm towed howitzers 2A65 "Msta - B" from Ingushetia (58 Army, 291st Artillery Brigade,

Southern Military District), at least one battery towed by KamAZ-6350 trucks, 14 March 2014;

6 122mm towed howitzers D-30, near Armyansk, March 16, 2014;

4 122mm SP howitzers 2S1 from 382nd Separate Marines Battalion;

About 30-40 APC BTR-80 and at least 4 communication and control vehicles;

54 BTR-80A (deployed near Armyansk on 16.03.2014);

171+ trucks, 15 HQ vehicles; special trucks; jeeps; minibuses;

S-300PMU (SA-20), radar and command vehicles 96L6E, 4 batteries or 14 launchers (March 14,

2014);

Pantsir-S1 (SA-22) - Bahchisarray, 2 batteries, March 14, 2014;

11 - 9K33 Osa-M (SA-8b) on the airfield Kirovskoe, East Crimea, March 17, 2014;

"Bastion - P" - relocated from Anapa to Sevastopol on March 9, 2014;

3K60 "Bal" - deployed in Sevastopol on March 16, 2014;

About 40-45+ “Tigr-M” armored cars;

40 Mi-8 and Mi-24 (2-4 Mi-35) on the airfield "Dolotinka" (Millerovo, Lugansk), March 17, 2014;

List of Russian military detachments spotted at March 17, 2014 (not all personnel and

military equipment of these detachments are deployed in Crimea)

22-th separate brigade of special forces GRU OsNAZ (Stepnoy, Rostov region, Southern Military

District and from Sochi);

76th Chernigirovskaya Air Assault Division - VDV (part of 234th airborne assault regiment, Pskov);

98th Guards Airborne Division (Ivanovo);

45th Airborne Special Purpose Regiment, Moscow, (45th separate intel regiment Spetsnaz);

31st Guards separate air assault brigade, Ulyanovsk;

23th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade;

15th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade (Roshinsky, Samara region) "Peacekeeping brigade";

7th Guards Air Assault (Mountain) Division, Novorossiysk;

17th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade - Southern Military District;

18-th Separate Guards Motorized Evpatorian Brigade with a dislocation in Khankala and

Kalinovskaya (Southern Military District);

291st Artillery Brigade, Southern Military District - 2 battalions;

382nd Separate battalion of marines, Temruk;

88th ORTBr Osnaz GRU, Ulan-Ude;

About 12 000 additional soldiers from all units and detachments have been transferred

since end of February 2014.

Russian forces in UKRAINE, October 2013: 13,000; 102 AIFV/APC: 24 arty; 1 Fleet HQ located at Sevastopol; 2 radar stations located at Sevastopol (Dnepr system, leased) and Mukachevo (Dnepr system, leased). Total: about 25 000 soldiers