Deployment of air forces
ISW: Russia has no elite infantry
8/29/2023 8:02 am
To stop the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russia ordered its air forces to the front’s hot spots. Elite units play an important role in Moscow’s military planning. ISW feels that associations have been weakened by shifting leadership and multiple activities.
U.S. According to the think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russia lacks experienced “elite infantry units”. Accordingly, the Russian military has sent all available air forces to regions where Ukraine is conducting its counteroffensive.
On August 27, elements of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division were ordered from the Kreminna region to the Rabotine region of Luhansk Region, where heavy fighting is currently taking place. ISW said these troop transfers could be a sign that the Russian army is running out of reserves.
The Russian military leadership has always relied on airborne troops for offensive and defensive operations, but these may have been weakened by large numbers of deployments. “The weakening of these forces will reduce Russia’s ability to sustain complex defensive operations and almost certainly nullify any Russian intention to resume large-scale offensive operations,” the current ISW report says.
“The airborne units of the Russian army have traditionally always been equipped with modern equipment and consisted of particularly well-trained soldiers,” Colonel Markus Reisner of the Austrian Armed Forces said in an interview with ntv.de on Monday. “One must not forget, however, that these units suffered great wear and tear, especially at the beginning of the war.”
Although the 76th Guards Air Assault Wing has been revamped in recent months, it lacks the good personnel it had in the beginning. “But the Russians are trying to counter a possible advance by the Ukrainians with these units,” Reisner said.
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