2026-07-11
The Azov record was renamed to its current designation (12th Special Forces Brigade "Azov") and placed under the National Guard's 1st Corps "Azov" (2025), with predecessor lineage recorded back to the 2014 volunteer battalion.
Conflict Module · Eastern Europe · Force Atlas
Force Atlas — Overview
A structured catalogue of major publicly documented forces, formations, and equipment — how it is organised, what the record states mean, and where to start reading.
Context, not targeting. This atlas describes structure and history. It deliberately excludes current locations, live strength, unit movements, and anything operationally sensitive — the content model has no fields for them. See the methodology.
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The catalogue
Publicly documented · representative, not exhaustiveUkrainian forces
77 records24 reviewed profiles · 53 structured stubs pending research · 0 historical / lineage records.
Joint · 5Land · 32Air · 9Naval · 10Special operations · 5Unmanned · 1Interior / security · 3Volunteer / irregular · 12
Russian forces
64 records22 reviewed profiles · 42 structured stubs pending research · 6 historical / lineage records.
Joint · 3Land · 32Air · 5Naval · 15Special operations · 1Interior / security · 2Volunteer / irregular · 6
Equipment catalogue
135 systemsFamily-level records of major publicly documented systems — never quantities, readiness or allocations.
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How to read this atlas
Record states · honesty machineryStructure. Each side is a set of trees: state military, interior forces, and browsing groups. A record marked “Grouping · not a command” exists only so related organisations can be found together — its members do not share a command, and each states its real parent institution.
Record states. A full profile has passed source review. A stub is an honest structural placeholder — name, place in the tree, broad role, and a dated status — awaiting research. Records that cannot yet meet even that threshold are held internally and do not appear on the site at all.
Subordination grades. Parent links are graded:confirmed, reported, disputed,historical, or unknown. Where a current parent cannot be verified — as with brigades amid Ukraine's rolling corps reform — the record says unknown rather than inventing precision.
Lineage, not amnesia. Reorganised, merged or disbanded organisations keep their records, marked with dated predecessor and successor links — Wagner's absorption after 2023 and the Donetsk and Luhansk corps are carried this way, never as if unchanged.
Every record carries a status as of date for its claims and a separate reviewed date for editorial checks — a review never silently refreshes a status date.
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Recent structural changes
From the public corrections log2026-07-11
KRAKEN 1654 (previously listed as "Kraken" under the National Guard) was re-grouped under intelligence-linked formations, reflecting its documented 2022 military-intelligence origin. Its current formal subordination is publicly contested and remains marked disputed pending source review; it has not been assigned to the 3rd Army Corps.
2026-07-11
Russian Naval Infantry was shown directly under the Armed Forces of Russia; it is now correctly placed as a component of the Russian Navy, which has been added as a branch record.
2026-07-11
The collapsed "Navy & Naval Infantry" node was split: the Navy record now covers the fleet arm, and the Marine Corps has its own record as a structurally distinct branch established in 2023.
2026-07-11
The Aerospace Forces (VKS) record, previously a single flat branch, now carries its umbrella structure: Air Force, Air & Missile Defence Forces and Space Forces.
2026-07-11
The Wagner-successor record is now titled "Wagner Group → Africa Corps" and carries machine-readable lineage (formed 2014, reorganised 2023 under Ministry of Defence control) instead of presenting the organisation as institutionally unchanged.
Full history on the corrections log.