200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade

200th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
Shoulder sleeve patch
Active1 December 1997 - present
Country Russia
Branch Russian Navy
TypeMechanized infantry
SizeBrigade
Part of14th Army Corps, Northern Military District Coastal Troops
Garrison/HQPechenga
Engagements
DecorationsOrder of Kutuzov 2nd Class Order of Kutuzov
HonorificsPechenga
Commanders
Current
commander
Colonel Denis Yuryevich Kurilo

The 200th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade is a military formation of the 14th Army Corps, part of the Northern Military District, based at Pechenga in Murmansk Oblast.[1] The brigade was formed from the 131st Motor Rifle Division in 1997 and was one of the two Russian Arctic warfare brigades.

In 2014, brigade units participated in the war in Donbas.[2][3]

In 2022, brigade units participated in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4] Interrogations of Russian prisoners of war established that the brigade was in Ukraine and suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Kharkiv.[5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ "131st Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "The Tour of Duty of the 200th Special Purpose Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy in Rostov Region and in Ukraine". InformNapalm.org (English). 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
  4. ^ "Northern Fleet attacks Ukraine, but no spillover impact on the Arctic". The Independent Barents Observer. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  5. ^ ""Alexander Ivanov, født i 1999, ble arrestert i Kharkov". "Tjener under kontrakt i militær enhet 08275 (200th Motorized Rifle Brigade basert i #Murmansk-regionen"". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  6. ^ "#OSINT-report about battle groups of the 200th Motor Rifle Brigad/ 200-я Отдельная Мотострелковая Бригада - Northern Fleet in #Ukrania. #Leak of audio-report has been translated. Their families deserve to know". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  7. ^ "Destroyed MTLB and T-80 near Kharkiv, this is the 200th OMSBR, unit 08275". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
  8. ^ "Tweets with hashtag #200mrb". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-03-05.

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