8th Guards Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade

The 8th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade is a formation of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2014–2015 brigade's units participated in the War in Donbass.

8th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade
Russian: 8-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая Чертковская дважды ордена Ленина, Краснознаменная, орденов Суворова, Кутузова и Богдана Хмельницкого бригада (горная) им. маршала бронетанковых войск М. Е. Катукова
8th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade shoulder sleeve insignia
Active2009–present
Country Russia
Branch Russian Ground Forces
TypeMotorized Infantry
RoleMountain infantry
Sizebrigade
Garrison/HQBorzoy
PatronMikhail Katukov
EngagementsWar in Donbass
Decorations Order of Lenin (2)
 Order of the Red Banner
 Order of Suvorov
 Order of Kutuzov
 Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
Battle honours Guards
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History

Previously the 8th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (not a mountain formation) was active in Transdnestr after the deactivation of the 59th Guards Motor Rifle Division. It was formed on 1 June 1997 from that division, and disbanded on 1 November 2002.[1]

The current formation traces its history from a premiere tank regiment of the storied 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division. In 2009 the 1st Guards Tank Regiment ("1-й гвардейский Чертковский Краснознамённый дважды ордена Ленина, орденов Суворова, Кутузова и Богдана Хмельницкого танковый полк имени маршала бронетанковых войск М. Е. Катукова"), descended from the 1st Guards Tank Brigade (ru:1-я гвардейская танковая бригада) formed in World War II, became the 8th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade.

In August 2014 the brigade's units fought in the Battle of Ilovaisk. On 26 August a column of mixed 8th Mountain Brigade and 31st Air Assault Brigade units was ambushed by a Ukrainian anti-tank artillery squad of the 51st Mechanized Brigade near Mnohopillya village.[2] Three Russian armored vehicles were destroyed (2 MTLB-VMK's and a MTLB-6M).[3][4] A wounded soldier of 8th Mountain Brigade was captured: Aleksandr Desyatov.[5][6] A wounded soldier of the 8th brigade was reported being sent to Kiev for medical treatment after his armor vehicle was destroyed in a fight.[7]

According to Sutyagin, 8th brigade's units fought in winter battles 2015 in Donbass.[8]

References
  1. Holm, Michael. "59th Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  2. "КАПИТАН, КОТОРЫЙ ИЗМЕНИЛ ХОД ВОЙНЫ" [The captain who changed the course of the war]. Censor.net (in Russian). Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  3. Bodies of the Russian Army soldiers near Ilovaisk
  4. "Russian military near Ilovaisk, 2014. 8th Motor Rifle Brigade (MUN 16544, Borzoi village, Chechnya) : Askai on Twitter". Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  5. Цензор.НЕТ. "Украинская армия уничтожила колонну российской бронетехники в секторе "Б" - танки прибыли из Чечни" [Ukrainian army destroyed a Russian armor column in Sector "B"]. Цензор.НЕТ (in Russian). Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  6. See at [8:24]:
    Bodies of the Russian Army soldiers near Ilovaisk
  7. Shaun Walker; Oksana Grytsenko; Leonid Ragozin (4 September 2014). "Russian soldier: 'You're better clueless because the truth is horrible'". the Guardian. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  8. Sutyagin, Igor (March 2015). "RUSI Briefing Paper: Russian Forces in Ukraine" (PDF). Royal United Services Institute: 3. Retrieved 6 April 2016. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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