810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade: Difference between revisions

After the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]] began, some service personnel of the brigade refused to fight against Ukraine.{{Cite web |url=https://nv.ua/ukraine/events/vtorzhenie-rossii-v-ukrainu-morpehi-v-krymu-otkazyvayutsya-uchastvovat-v-voyne-50221447.html |title=Военные в Крыму отказываются участвовать во вторжении РФ в Украину — Центр оборонных стратегий |access-date=2022-03-31 |archive-date=2022-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331170809/https://nv.ua/ukraine/events/vtorzhenie-rossii-v-ukrainu-morpehi-v-krymu-otkazyvayutsya-uchastvovat-v-voyne-50221447.html |url-status=live }} Others fought in the [[Siege of Mariupol]] that started on 24 February, in which the brigade was involved in the [[Battle of Azovstal]]. The brigade suffered heavy losses in Mariupol, with over 40 obituaries published in the Russian press and social media. The losses included brigade commander Colonel Aleksey Sharov, killed on 22 March.{{Cite news |last=Istomin |first=Pavel |date=23 March 2022 |title=В боях под Мариуполем погиб командир 810-й бригады ЧФ полковник Алексей Шаров |language=ru |work=ForPost |url=https://sevastopol.su/news/v-boyah-pod-mariupolem-pogib-komandir-810-y-brigady-chf-polkovnik-aleksey-sharov |access-date=5 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323105959/https://sevastopol.su/news/v-boyah-pod-mariupolem-pogib-komandir-810-y-brigady-chf-polkovnik-aleksey-sharov |archive-date=23 March 2022}} The Ukrainian General Staff on 17 April estimated brigade losses as 158 killed, about 500 wounded, and 70 missing. At least three naval infantryman of the brigade were killed in the shelling of Russian landing ships in [[Berdiansk|Berdyansk]] on 24 March, including one confirmed aboard the landing ship [[Russian ship Caesar Kunikov|”Caesar Kunikov”]].{{Cite news |last=Dorogan |first=Aleksina |date=17 May 2022 |title=Потери 810-й бригады РФ. Что известно о погибших и воюющих? |language=ru |work=Krym.Realii |url=https://ru.krymr.com/a/poteri-810-brigady-rf-chto-izvestno-o-pogibshikh-/31845629.html |access-date=5 June 2022}} Black Sea Fleet sailors, including some from the [[Slava-class cruiser|Project 1164 Atlant]] class cruiser ”[[Russian cruiser Moskva|Moskva]]”, sunk on 14 April 2022, have been used as replacements for brigade losses in Mariupol.{{Cite news |last=Slavin |first=Alexey |date=16 May 2022 |title=”Наших ребят, судя по всему, забыли” |language=ru |work=Meduza |url=https://meduza.io/feature/2022/05/16/nashih-rebyat-sudya-po-vsemu-zabyli |access-date=17 May 2022}}{{Cite web |title=Оперативна інформація станом на 06.00 15.05.2022 щодо російського вторгнення |url=https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGeneralStaff.ua%2Fposts%2F317306580582427 |access-date=2022-05-17 |website= |publisher=Генеральний штаб ЗСУ / General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine |language=uk |via=Facebook}}