June 14, 2026: Since 2022 Russia has sent in numerous brigades, regiments, detachments and units of the Spetsnaz as well as elements from the FSB and GRU/military intelligence to Ukraine. There were also some irregular units, including the Wagner Group, Africa Corps, and several militia units, including some from Chechnya.

All these forces were subordinated, at one time or another, to the units of Russia’s army:

2nd Guards Combined Arms Army

25th Combined Arms Army

41st Guards Combined Arms Army

36th Combined Arms Army

29th Combined Arms Army

35th Combined Arms Army

6th Combined Arms Army

20th Guards Combined Arms Army

8th Guards Combined Arms Army

49th Combined Arms Army

58th Guards Combined Arms Army

18th Combined Arms Army

4th Air and Air Defense Forces Army

6th Air and Air Defense Forces Army

11th Air and Air Defense Forces Army

Each of these armies controlled dozens of brigades, regiments and miscellaneous units during the time the army was in Ukraine. Each new army showing up brought with it some of its own brigades while also taking command of units belonging to army it was replacing, many units took heavy losses, leaving some brigades and regiments so depleted that they were withdrawn to Russia for reconstitution and, in a few cases, redeployment to Ukraine.

So far Russia has sent thousands of brigades, regiments and smaller units to Ukraine. At any one time Russia has had 700,000- 800,000 troops in Ukraine facing about the same number of Ukrainian soldiers. One difference has been casualties, with Russia having lost 1.4 million, dead, disabled, captured, deserters and missing so far. Ukrainian casualties have been about half that, plus thousands of civilian casualties and eight million civilians forced from their homes; another seven million have fled the country. The number of war refugees is the highest seen in Europe since World War II. The Ukraine War is the largest European conflict since World War II. Ukrainian partisans continued to fight Soviet troops after 1945 and this lasted until the early 1950s. At that point Russia considered Ukraine part of the Soviet Union. The Ukrainians disagreed then and continued to resist Russian domination.