2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive order of battle

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] [7] [8] [9]} Western officials have said that such losses were not unexpected for attacking forces. ^{[10] [11]} Casualty estimates for Ukrainian forces during the counteroffensive range from 90,000 ^[12] to 400,000. ^[13] On the other side, Newsweek estimated Russian forces to have suffered 11,000 casualties during the counteroffensive. ^{[14] [15]} The counteroffensive was widely regarded as a crucial moment in the war but also as a failure for Ukrainian forces. ^{[16] [17]}

Ukrainian forces

  Armed Forces of Ukraine

• Ukrainian Ground Forces
  • 9th Army Corps - Maj. Gen. Eduard Moskalyov ^[18]
    • 3rd Assault Brigade - Andriy Biletsky
    • 4th Tank Brigade - Oleh Chernov ^{[19] [20]}
    • 47th Mechanised Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Sak (until 16 September); ^{[21] [22]} Colonel Oleksandr Pavlii (after 16 September)
    • 58th Motorized Brigade - Oleksandr Saltytskyi ^[23]
      • 13th Separate Motorized Infantry Battalion  [ uk ] - Semenyuk Oleg Mykolayovych  †
    • 67th Mechanized Brigade - Andriy Stempitsky (until October 2023); Roman Korenyuk (after October 2023) ^[24]
  • 10th Army Corps - Brig. Gen. Vasily Zubanich
    • Skala Battalion - Major Yuriy Harkaviy "Skala" ^[25]
    • 5th Tank Brigade - Col. Andriy Shchukin ^[26]
    • 33rd Mechanised Brigade - Colonel Ivan Voitenko ^{[27] [28]}
    • 116th Mechanised Brigade ^[29]
    • 117th Mechanised Brigade ^{[29] [30]}
    • 118th Mechanised Brigade ^{[31] [32]}
  • 11th Army Corps - Maj. Gen. Volodymyr Mirnoyuk
    • 3rd Tank Brigade - Colonel Roman Sheremet ^[33]
    • 60th Mechanised Brigade - Viktor Skaternoi ^[34]
    • 62nd Mechanised Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Serhiyevich Moroz  [ uk ] ^[35]
    • 63rd Mechanized Brigade - Colonel Skyba Petro Pavlovych ^[36]
  • Operational Command North - Brigadier General Dmytro Krasylnykov
    • 5th Assault Brigade - Oleksandr Yakovenko
    • 30th Mechanised Brigade - Colonel Ihor Dovhan ^{[37] [38]}
    • 31st Mechanised Brigade ^[39]
    • 32nd Mechanised Brigade - Denis Merzlikin
    • 44th Mechanised Brigade - Viktor Hryhorovych Fedorenko  † ^[40]
      • 3rd Mechanised Battalion - Major Oleksij Šedul'ko  † ^[41]
    • 110th Mechanised Brigade - Mykola Chumak ^[42]
  • Operational Command East - Major General Oleh Mikats
    • 23rd Mechanised Brigade ^[43]
    • 43rd Mechanised Brigade
    • 93rd Mechanised Brigade - Colonel Pavlo Palisa ^[44]
    • 142nd Rifle Brigade - Andrii Dzhuk
  • Operational Command South - Major General Andrii Kovalchuk
    • 21st Mechanised Brigade ^[45]
    • 22nd Mechanised Brigade Colonel Zavadsky Dmytro Vadymovich  [ uk ] ^[46]
    • 42nd Mechanised Brigade ^[47]
    • 56th Motorized Brigade - Col. Serhii Sirchenko ^[48]
    • 59th Motorised Brigade - Vadym Sukharevsky
      • Chosen Company - Ryan O'Leary ^[49]
        • 1st Rifle Platoon - Dalton Medlin  † ^[50]
        • 2nd Rifle Platoon - Andrew Webber  † ^[51]
        • 3rd Recon Platoon - Johan Fredriksson  † ^[52]
  • Operational Command West - Major General Serhiy Litvinov
    • 10th Mountain Assault Brigade ^[53]
    • 44th Artillery Brigade - Roman Dudchenko ^[54]
    • 65th Mechanised Brigade - A. Kravets ^[55]
    • 68th Jaeger Brigade - Oleksiy Shum
    • 128th Mountain Assault Brigade - Colonel Dmytro Lysyuk ^[56]
    • 141st Infantry Brigade - Colonel Serhii Nazvanov ^[57]
  • Special Police Forces - Ihor Klymenko
    • Khyzhak Brigade
    • Liut Brigade - Colonel Oleksandr Netrebko
  • Norman Brigade - Jean-Francois Ratelle "Hrulf" ^{[58] [59]}
  • Black Maple Company ^{[60] [61]}
• Ukrainian Marine Corps
  • 35th Marine Brigade - Yuriy Andriyenko
  • 36th Marine Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Sikoza
  • 37th Marine Brigade
  • 38th Marine Brigade
  • 140th Marine Reconnaissance Battalion - Oleksandr Mykolayovych Staryna  [ uk ] ^[62]
• Ukrainian Air Assault Forces
  • 46th Airmobile Brigade - Colonel Valeriy Skred
  • 79th Air Assault Brigade - Colonel Oleksandr Lutsenko  [ uk ]
    • 1st Separate Air Assault Company "Belarus"
  • 80th Air Assault Brigade - Colonel Ihor Skybyuk
  • 82nd Air Assault Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Pavlo Rozlach ^[63]
  • 95th Air Assault Brigade - Dmytro Bratishko
• Offensive Guard
  • 1st Presidential Operational Brigade - Colonel Mykola Mykolayovych Mishakin  [ uk ] (until 28 July); Colonel Anton Olegovich (after 28 July) ^[64]
  • 3rd Operational Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Oleksiy Vasyliovych Khilchenko
    • Special Intelligence and Reconnaissance Company - Andriy Ihorovych Syadristy   † ^{[65] [66]}
  • Rubizh Brigade - Colonel Artem Ilyukhin ^[67]
  • 14th Chervona Kalyna Brigade - Colonel Oleksandr Okhrimenko ^[68]
  • 15th Operational Brigade - Colonel Ivan Bondarenko ^[69]
  • Steel Border Brigade - Colonel Valerii Padytel ^{[70] [71]}
• Territorial Defence Forces - Major General Ihor Tantsyura (until 9 October); Lieutenant General Anatoliy Barhylevych (after 9 October) ^[72]
  • 100th Territorial Defence Brigade - Colonel Ruslan Tkachuk
  • 104th Territorial Defense Brigade - Colonel Oleksandr Tsys (until 4 June); Lieutenant Colonel Serhii Kasprov (after 4 June) ^[73]
  • 106th Territorial Defense Brigade - Colonel Bihus Valentyn ^[74]
  • 107th Territorial Defense Brigade - Colonel Andrii Tsisak ^{[75] [76]}
  • 108th Territorial Defense Brigade - Colonel Dmytro Herasymenko ^[77]
    • 98th Territorial Defense Battalion ^[78]
  • 110th Territorial Defense Brigade - Colonel Oleksandr Ihnatiev
    • 111th Territorial Defense Battalion ^[79]
    • 114th Territorial Defense Battalion  [ uk ] - Major Ivan Ivanovich Yankivskyi ^[80]
  • 111th Territorial Defense Brigade - Colonel Vadym Bondarenko - Colonel Vadym Bondarenko (until 30 June); ^[81] Colonel Serhii Mamchenko (after 30 June) ^[82]
  • 116th Territorial Defense Brigade - Colonel Chakhlov Oleksandr ^[83]
  • 119th Territorial Defense Brigade - Colonel Vysotskyi Oleksii
    • 167th Territorial Defense Battalion ^[84]
  • 121st Territorial Defense Brigade - Colonel Serhii Zadorozhnyi ^[85]
  • 128th Territorial Defense Brigade - Colonel Rostyslav Rehinskyi ^[86]
  • 129th Territorial Defence Brigade
  • Ukrainian Volunteer Army - Dmytro Yarosh
    • 7th Battalion Arei - Oleksandr Hryshchuk
  • International Legion - Colonel Ruslan Miroshnichenko ^{[87] [88]}
    • 2nd Battalion International Legion ^[89]
    • 3rd Battalion International Legion - "Bohdan" ^[90]
    • Bolívar Battalion - José David Chaparro Martínez ^{[91] [92]}
    • Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment - Dzianis Prokharaŭ ^[93]
    • Pahonia Regiment ^[a]

Russian forces

  Russian Armed Forces

• Russian Ground Forces
  • Southern Military District - Colonel General Sergey Kuzovlev
    • 8th Combined Arms Army - Colonel General Gennady V. Anashkin ^{[95] [96]}
    • 18th Combined Arms Army - Lieutenant General Andrey Seritsky ^{[97] [98]}
      • 40th Army Corps ^[99]
        • 47th Motor Rifle Division
    • 58th Guards Combined Arms Army - Major General Ivan Ivanovich Popov (until 11 July); Lieutenant General Denis Lyamin (after 11 July)
      • 19th Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Dmitri Ivanovich Uskov ^[100]
        • 429th Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment ^[100]
      • 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Roman Demurchiyev ^[101]
        • 70th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
        • 291st Motor Rifle Regiment
  • Western Military District - Colonel General Yevgeny Nikiforov
    • 3rd Army Corps - Major General V. A. Belyaevsky ^[102]
      • 72nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
    • 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 ^[103]
      • 57th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade  [ ru ] ^{[104] [105]}
      • 127th Motor Rifle Division - Major General Kuzmenkov Igor Anatolyevich
      • 305th Artillery Brigade  [ ru ] ^[106]
    • 35th Combined Arms Army - Lieutenant General Aleksandr Semyonovich Sanchik
  • Central Military District - Colonel General Andrey Mordvichev
    • 25th Combined Arms Army - Major General Andrey Seritsky ^[107]
      • 11th Separate Tank Brigade ^[108]
      • 67th Motorized Rifle Division
        • 19th Tank Regiment ^[108]
        • 31st Motorized Rifle Regiment (Bashkortostan) ^[109]
        • 36th Motorized Rifle Regiment ^[110]
        • 37th Motorized Rifle Regiment
      • 75th Artillery Brigade ^[108]
    • 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  † ^{[111] [112]}
  • 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 ^[113]
  • 106th Guards Airborne Division - Major General Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Selivyorstov ^[114]
• GRU
  • 22nd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Aleksei Nikolayevich Savchenko ^[115]
• Russian Navy
  • 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade - Colonel Igor Kalmykov ^[103]
• Pavel Sudoplatov Battalion - Yevgeny Balitsky
• Bogdan Khmelnitsky Battalion - Andrii Tyshchenko ^[116]
• Storm Ossetia - Ayvengo Tekhov  †
• Wagner Group - Andrei Troshev ^[117]
• Storm-Z - Yevgeny Burdinsky
  • Storm Gladiator
• Storm-V
• Donetsk People's Militia
  • 1st Donetsk Army Corps
    • Pyatnashka Brigade - Akhra Avidzba
    • Vostok Brigade - Alexander Khodakovsky ^[118]
    • Sparta Battalion - Artem Zhoga ^[119]
• Luhansk People's Militia
  • 2nd Guards Lugansk-Severodonetsk Army Corps
    • 6th Separate Cossack Motorised Rifle Brigade - Vladimir Sergeevich Polupoltinnykh ^[120]
    • Prizrak Brigade - Artur Bogachenko  † ^{[121] [122]}

Notes

1. Disbanded on 1st July 2023 ^[94]

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