That’s according to the information published on agency’s official page on Facebook.
The research and analysis of the papers allowed to establish a list of units involved in the invasion of Ukraine, military ranks and names of invaders who were either, went missing, were captured or sustained wounds and injuries, Ukrinform reports.
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As of March 15, the total casualties of the 1st Tank Army amounted to 409. Ukrainian forces eliminated 61 and wounded 209 invaders.
"In the first two weeks of the war alone, 44 Russian tankmen went missing, 96 invaders from this army opted to save their lives and surrendered," the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine added.
Within the same period, Ukrainian defenders destroyed and seized 308 units of military equipment from the said army.
According to western estimations, the 1st Guards Tank Army was one of the most elite formations of the Russian Armed Forces. The 2nd Guards Motor Rifle ‘Tamanskaya’ Division and 4th Guards Tank ‘Kantemirovskaya’ Division were considered to be the best equipped, trained, and had the greatest offensive capability out of all of Russia’s armored formations. The majority of the 1st Guards Tank Army was equipped with modern T-80U main battle tanks (MBT) that some suggest were on par with Western MBTs. However, the performance of the 1st Guards Tank Army in Ukraine has been somewhat underwhelming.
Russia started to concentrate its troops on the border with Ukraine since October 2021. Elements of the 1st Guards Tank Army's 2nd Motorised Division have been present in the region since at least 26 October. Additional 2nd Motorised Division and 4th Tank Division forces were identified moving through the region in the following days and are believed to have deployed to a site close to the northern Ukrainian border between Kursk and Bryansk.
At the same time some elements of the 1st Tank Army were reported to have forward deployed to the Pogonovo training ground south of Voronezh. Main Battle Tanks, self-propelled and towed artillery and long-range multiple rocket launchers (MRLs)drawn from the 4th Guards Tank Division and the 2nd Motorised Rifle Division, were reported to had been positioned in the vicinity of Voronezh.
Воронеж pic.twitter.com/2rce61B1KQ— IgorGirkin (@GirkinGirkin) February 11, 2022
After the invasion began in February 2022,the 1st Tank Army took part in the Northeastern Ukraine offensive of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine taking part in the failed Siege of Chernihiv.
After 3 weeks of fighting 1st Guards Tank Army had lost 409 men and 308 units of military equipment. As Ukrainian military intelligence reported, at the end of March the 1st Tank Army reportedly begen setting up a repair base near the village of Klimove, in the Bryansk region (35 km from the border of Ukraine), in order to restore tanks from the reserve stockpiles. Later the Ukrainian General Staff claimed that elements of the 1st Tank Army had been pulled out of Ukraine completely in an effort to regroup. After the regrouping units of the 1st Tank Army were seen in the Izium direction as well as in the Slobozhansky direction.
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