2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive order of battle
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The 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive was a major offensive against Russian forces occupying Ukrainian territory with the goal of breaching the front lines.[1][2][3][4][5] Efforts were made in many directions, primarily in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. In total, Ukraine recaptured 14 villages with a total pre-war population of around 5,000 but suffered heavy casualties in the process.[6] Western officials have said that such losses were not unexpected for attacking forces.[7] The counteroffensive was widely regarded as a crucial moment in the war but also as a failure for Ukrainian forces.
Ukrainian forces
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Ukrainian Ground Forces
9th Army Corps - Maj. Gen. Eduard Moskalyov[8]
3rd Assault Brigade - Andriy Biletsky
4th Tank Brigade - Oleh Chernov[9][10]
47th Mechanised Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Sak (until 16 September); Colonel Oleksandr Pavlii (after 16 September)
10th Army Corps - Brig. Gen. Vasily Zubanich
Skala Battalion - Major Yuriy Harkaviy "Skala"[11]
5th Tank Brigade - Col. Andriy Shchukin[12]
33rd Mechanised Brigade - Colonel Ivan Voitenko[13][14]
116th Mechanised Brigade[15]
117th Mechanised Brigade[16][17]
118th Mechanised Brigade[18][19]
11th Army Corps - Maj. Gen. Volodymyr Mirnoyuk
60th Mechanised Brigade - Viktor Skaternoi[20]
62nd Mechanised Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Serhiyevich Moroz[21]
Operational Command North - Brigadier General Dmytro Krasylnykov
5th Assault Brigade - Oleksandr Yakovenko
30th Mechanised Brigade - Colonel Ihor Dovhan[22][23]
31st Mechanised Brigade[24]
32nd Mechanised Brigade - Denis Merzlikin
44th Mechanised Brigade - Viktor Hryhorovych Fedorenko †[25]
110th Mechanised Brigade - Mykola Chumak[27]
Operational Command East - Major General Oleh Mikats
Operational Command South - Major General Andrii Kovalchuk
Operational Command West - Major General Serhiy Litvinov
65th Mechanised Brigade - A. Kravets[37]
68th Jaeger Brigade - Oleksiy Shum
128th Mountain Assault Brigade - Colonel Dmytro Lysyuk[38]
141st Infantry Brigade - Colonel Serhii Nazvanov[39]
Liut Brigade - Colonel Oleksandr Netrebko
Norman Brigade - Jean-Francois Ratelle "Hrulf"[40][41]
Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment - Dzianis Prokharaŭ- Black Maple Company[42][43]
Ukrainian Marine Corps
35th Marine Brigade - Yuriy Andriyenko
36th Marine Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Sikoza
37th Marine Brigade
38th Marine Brigade
Ukrainian Air Assault Forces
46th Airmobile Brigade - Colonel Valeriy Skred
80th Air Assault Brigade - Colonel Ihor Skybyuk
82nd Air Assault Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Pavlo Rozlach[44]
95th Air Assault Brigade - Dmytro Bratishko
Offensive Guard
14th Chervona Kalyna Brigade - Colonel Oleksandr Okhrimenko[45]
15th Operational Brigade - Colonel Ivan Bondarenko[46]
Territorial Defence Forces
100th Territorial Defence Brigade - Colonel Ruslan Tkachuk
129th Territorial Defence Brigade
Ukrainian Volunteer Army - Dmytro Yarosh
- 7th Battalion Arei - Oleksandr Hryshchuk
International Legion - Colonel Ruslan Miroshnichenko[47]
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Russian forces
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Russian Ground Forces
Southern Military District - Colonel General Sergey Kuzovlev
8th Combined Arms Army - Colonel General Gennady V. Anashkin[50][51]
18th Combined Arms Army - Lieutenant General Andrey Seritsky[52][53]- 40th Army Corps[54]
58th Guards Combined Arms Army - Major General Ivan Ivanovich Popov (until 11 July); Lieutenant General Denis Lyamin (after 11 July)
42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Roman Demurchiyev[55]
Western Military District - Colonel General Yevgeny Nikiforov
3rd Army Corps - Major General V. A. Belyaevsky[56]
20th Guards Combined Arms Army - Major General Sukhrab Akhmedov
144th Guards Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Aleksey Alekseyevich Polyakov
Eastern Military District - Colonel General Andrey Kuzmenko
5th Combined Arms Army - Major General Aleksey Podivilov[57]
- 127th Motor Rifle Division - Major General Kuzmenkov Igor Anatolyevich
35th Combined Arms Army - Lieutenant General Aleksandr Semyonovich Sanchik
Central Military District - Colonel General Andrey Mordvichev
- 25th Combined Arms Army - Major General Andrey Seritsky
41st Combined Arms Army - Lieutenant General Sergey Ryzhkov
Russian Airborne Forces
7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division - Colonel Aleksandr Kornev
31st Guards Air Assault Brigade - Colonel Andrey "Dunai" Kondrashkin †[58][59]
45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade - Colonel Vadim Pankov
76th Guards Air Assault Division - Guards Colonel Denis Shishov
98th Guards Airborne Division - Guards Colonel Viktor Igoryevich Gunaza
104th Guards Airborne Division[60]
106th Guards Airborne Division - Major General Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Selivyorstov[61]
GRU
22nd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Aleksei Nikolayevich Savchenko[62]
Russian Navy
Pavel Sudoplatov Battalion - Yevgeny Balitsky
Bogdan Khmelnitsky Battalion - Andrii Tyshchenko[63]- Storm Ossetia - Ayvengo Tekhov †
- Wagner Group - Andrei Troshev[64]
Storm-Z - Yevgeny Burdinsky
- Storm Gladiator
Storm-V
Donetsk People's Militia
Luhansk People's Militia
2nd Guards Lugansk-Severodonetsk Army Corps
6th Separate Cossack Motorised Rifle Brigade - Vladimir Sergeevich Polupoltinnykh[67]
Prizrak Brigade - Artur Bogachenko †[68][69]
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