5th Tank Brigade of Russia
The 5th Separate Guards Tank Brigade is a formation of the Russian Ground Forces' tank troops. It is part of the 36th Combined Arms Army (formerly the 29th Army Corps) of the Eastern Military District and is based in Buryatia. Since 2022 the brigade has been involved in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Ukrainian airborne assault forces report Russian attempts to exploit bad weather on Huliaypole front
Ukraine's 7th Corps of the Airborne Assault Forces reported that Russian forces are combining small-group infantry infiltrations with motorcycle movement and armored vehicles on the Huliaypole direction as weather conditions deteriorated over the past week. Multiple Russian combined-arms armies are committed on the axis, which the report identifies as a key southern thrust toward Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian forces destroyed a GRU-linked special-purpose brigade group and a logistics bridge used by the Russian army.