- Service ensign · official · carried by Navy
- State affiliation · Russia
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: St Andrew's ensign — naval ensign of the Russian Federation — carried by Navy, not issued to this record. Drawn by Vigil to the geometry the 1992 readoption specifies — white field, blue saltire, band width one tenth of the fly, 2:3. Drawn rather than supplied because this geometry is fully specified; no image file is involved in this record.
State affiliation: Russia.
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In brief
Marine brigades committed as ground assault troops, notably in the south.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. 5 subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 4 on the record
- Record state
- Full
Broad area of activity
Committed on land across the southern and eastern fronts; most associated with repeated assaults toward Vuhledar in 2022–2023.
Notable history
Russia's marine brigades were committed to the land war from the start and became emblematic of its attritional cost: formations mauled in the failed Vuhledar assaults were reconstituted and recommitted several times. Their employment as ordinary — if higher-priority — mechanised infantry mirrors the VDV's fate: elite labels persisting after the specialised role has gone.
Strengths
Priority for recruitment and refit; retained cohesion through repeated reconstitution.
Limitations
Repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, with each cycle diluting experience; committed to some of the war's least favourable assaults.
Subordinate formations
Divisions 1
Brigades 4
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Assessed as of2026-07Last reviewed2026-07
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