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21st Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
The 21st Separate Guards Red Banner Omsk-Novobug Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Motorized Rifle Brigade, or simply the 21st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade was a formation of the Russian Ground Forces based in Orenburg Oblast. It was formed on 1 June 2009 from the 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division as a result of the 2008 Russian military reform.[1] In 2014, the brigade was involved in the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.[2] In the spring of 2024, the 27th Guards Motorized Rifle Division was revived and 21st Brigade disbanded.[3] HistoryIn August 2014, the brigade's units fought in the Battle of Ilovaisk. On 29 August, during a Ukrainian breakthrough attempt from Ilovaisk, a "northern" column of Ukrainian forces took the fight with 21st brigade's troops on a road between Voznesenka and Horbatenko villages.[4] A Ukrainian T-64 tank and several BMP-2s of 51st Mechanized Brigade were able to destroy two T-72BA tanks[5][6][7] and a BMP-2[8] of the 21st Motor Rifle Brigade. Another 21st brigade's T-72BA tank was destroyed near Kumachove village, presumably by a Tochka-U missile strike of the 19th Missile Brigade.[9] A Ukrainian Headquarters briefing held on 11 March 2015 noted the 21st Motor Rifle Brigade units are operating near Yenakiieve, Ukraine.[10] Bodies of soldiers, reportedly from the division, which were killed in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine near Rusaniv were among six that were to be swapped for two captured Ukrainian soldiers in an exchange in March 2022.[11] 2024Becoming 27th Motor Rifle Division as of April 2024, consisting of: [12]
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