British War Office converted Please note that during March 2023, the activities of the 155th Marine Brigade were widely covered with the help of a large-scale campaign, which included the demonstration of combat video from the helmet cameras of the brigade’s military personnel. Also, top Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov paid a visit to the brigade.
In addition, there have been public statements that the union is in “high spirits and determined to achieve its goals.” Footage has also been circulated showing the 155th brigade being re-equipped with modern modified Russian tanks, figured out in British intelligence.
Po data British intelligence, in reality, the 155th Occupying Brigade has probably been given the status of a unit unfit for combat operations at least twice in the past six months – due to participation in tactically erroneous frontal attacks near Vuhledar, Donetsk region.
The Russian Defense Ministry’s efforts to restore the brigade’s image likely reflect concern that its failures are increasingly being attributed to Russian senior military leadership, consider in the British office.
Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Anna Malyar reported on February 15 that the losses in some divisions of the invaders are up to 80%. On February 26, British intelligence noted that the Russian marines were performing one of the most difficult tactical tasks near Vuhledar in the Donetsk region and suffered “enormous losses.”
On March 5, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine spoke about the conflict in the military leadership of the Russian Federation: Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu demanded to take Ugledar in the Donetsk region, the leadership of the 155th brigade and the invaders refuse to storm the Ukrainian positions.
On March 10, the head of the joint press center of the defense forces of the Taurian direction, Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksiy Dmitrashkovsky, stated that the morale of the invaders near Vuhledar had “completely fallen”, and the commander of the “famous 155th Marine Brigade”, which was defeated by Ukrainian defenders, was taken to Rostov-on-Don (Russian Federation) for refusing to carry out combat orders.
Russia’s 155th Marine Brigade, previously considered “elite” in Russia, has been destroyed and rebuilt eight times since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in a March 24 operational analysis.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the morning of April 3, since the beginning of a full-scale war, the Ukrainian military had eliminated about 175,160 Russian invaders (more than 600 in the last 24 hours), 3,619 tanks, 6,993 armored combat vehicles and thousands of other equipment.
