Russian Naval Infantry
Naval infantry arm of the Russian Navy
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| July 2024 | Molniya-1 suicide drones with a claimed 30 km range reportedly entered service. |
| January 2023 | The 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade attempted a breakthrough assault in Vuhledar against the Ukrainian 72nd Mechanized Brigade. Despite initial success, the assault stagnated due to heavy infantry losses, lack of ammunition, and poor technical support, with T-80 tanks used in an indirect fire role. |
| November 15 2022 | A commander of the Donetsk People's Republic indicated that lower-level commanders within the 155th Guards Naval Infantry disregarded orders during the Pavlivka attack. |
| November 9 2022 | The 155th Guards Naval Infantry and 40th Naval Infantry Brigade attacked the Ukrainian military garrison in Pavlivka, suffering approximately 300 casualties. Soldiers complained about the attack being motivated by their commander's desire for bonuses and awards. |
| April 2022 | After the Kyiv offensive was repelled, Russian forces retreated to Belarus and later redeployed to Yehorivka and Pavlivka in the Donbas region. |
| February 24 2022 | Russian Naval Infantry launched an amphibious assault on the Sea of Azov coast and began besieging Mariupol, using Ropucha-class and Ivan Gren-class landing ships capable of landing tanks. The 155th Guards Naval Infantry participated in the Kyiv offensive. |
| 2021 | About 40 BMP-3 Infantry Fighting Vehicles were delivered to Naval Infantry units. |
| 2021 | Pacific Fleet Naval Infantry were armed with 'Sectant' small robotic reconnaissance systems. |
| 2021 | Caspian Flotilla Naval Infantry received modernized 5.45-mm AK-74M assault rifles with 'Obves' modernization kit. |
| 2021 | Ukraine launched the Crimea Platform, a diplomatic initiative aimed at protecting Crimean inhabitants' rights and reversing the annexation. |
| January 2021 | 40 BTR-82A armored personnel carriers were delivered to the Black Sea Fleet. |
| 2019 | The newest anti-landing mine PDM-MD passed state tests. |
| 2019 | Lieutenant General Viktor Astapov appointed as the commander of the Naval Infantry, serving as the Deputy Commander for Coastal Troops/Commandant of the Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy. |
| 2019 | A survey by Russian company FOM found 72% of Crimean residents said their lives improved since annexation, while only 39% of mainland Russians viewed the annexation as beneficial. |
| December 2019 | UN General Assembly voted to condemn the 'temporary occupation' of Crimea, reaffirm nonrecognition of its annexation, and support Ukraine's territorial integrity. |
| November 27 2019 | Russian version of Apple's App Store begins showing Crimea as part of Russia |
| December 28 2018 | Russia completed a high-tech security fence marking the de facto border between Crimea and Ukraine. |
| November 26 2018 | Ukraine Parliament backed martial law along coastal regions and those bordering Russia in response to Russian naval actions. |
| June 12 2018 | Ukraine submitted a 90 kg memorandum to the UN's International Court of Justice, containing 17,500 pages documenting racial discrimination in Crimea and state terrorism financing. |
| May 2018 | Server Mustafayev, founder of the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement, was imprisoned by Russian authorities and charged with 'membership of a terrorist organisation'. Amnesty International and Front Line Defenders demanded his release. |
| June 2017 | Russia suspended its budget payments to the Council of Europe after having its voting rights revoked, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stating that payments would not resume until all rights of Russia's delegation were fully restored. |
| 2016 | Until this year, the new subjects were grouped in the Crimean Federal District. |
| 2016 | French atlas by Larousse initially shows Crimea as part of Russian territory, later changing to reflect Crimea as part of Ukraine after Ukrainian diplomatic protest |
| August 8 2016 | Ukraine reported increased Russian military presence along the demarcation line, and deployed more troops in response. |
| April 20 2016 | The Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs was established to manage occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea regions affected by Russian military intervention. |
| February 2016 | Human rights defender Emir-Usein Kuku was arrested in Crimea and accused of belonging to Hizb ut-Tahrir, an accusation he denied. Amnesty International called for his immediate release. |
| 2015 | The Investigative Committee of Russia announced multiple theft and corruption cases in Crimean infrastructure projects, with spending exceeding actual accounted costs by a factor of three. |
| 2015 | PepsiCo website briefly displays a Russian-language map depicting Crimea as part of Russia |
| 2015 | Tourism in Crimea dropped to 3 million tourists, down from the pre-annexation average of 5.5 million. The Russian government attempted to stimulate tourism by subsidizing holidays for children and state workers. |
| 2015 | 67% of Russians on the mainland believed the annexation was beneficial for the country. |
| December 2015 | Italian geopolitical magazine Limes begins mapping Crimea as part of Russia |
| October 7 2015 | The president of Ukraine signed the law officially recognizing 20 February 2014 as the date of Russian occupation of Crimea. |
| September 16 2015 | The Ukrainian parliament voted to set 20 February 2014 as the official date of the Russian temporary occupation of the Crimean Peninsula. |
| July 2015 | Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev declared that Crimea had been fully integrated into Russia. |
| June 2015 | Mikhail Kasyanov states that all Russian Duma decisions on Crimea annexation were illegal from an international perspective. |
| May 2015 | Local activist Alexander Kostenko was sentenced to four years in a penal colony, with his lawyer claiming the case was fabricated and involving physical abuse. |
| May 7 2015 | Crimea switched its phone code system from Ukrainian to Russian. |
| February 2015 | Documents allegedly written by oligarch Konstantin Malofeev reveal a pre-planned strategy for annexing Crimea and eastern Ukraine following Viktor Yanukovych's removal from power. |
| 2014 | Russian Naval Infantry's 61st Naval Infantry Brigade became involved in the War in Donbas, participating in military operations in the Luhansk Oblast region of Ukraine. |
| 2014 | Ukraine cut off water supplies through the North Crimean Canal, causing the rice crop to fail and significantly damaging maize and soybean crops. |
| 2014 | Armed men seized various Crimean businesses, including banks, hotels, shipyards, farms, gas stations, a bakery, a dairy, and Yalta Film Studio. |
| December 2014 | Russia withdrew its forces from southern Kherson. |
| December 2014 | Ukraine halted all train and bus services to Crimea. |
| December 2 2014 | Ukraine created the Ministry of Information Policy, with the goal of countering 'Russian information aggression' under first Minister Yuriy Stets. |
| August 14 2014 | Vladimir Putin, while visiting Crimea, ruled out pushing beyond Crimea and pledged to end the conflict in Ukraine peacefully. |
| June 5 2014 | OpenStreetMap switches to a territorial dispute option, displaying Crimea as a disputed territory belonging to both Russia and Ukraine |
| June 5 2014 | Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed Government resolution No.961 establishing air, sea, road and railway checkpoints, creating a legal basis for the Russian state border in Crimea and Sevastopol. |
| May 31 2014 | OpenStreetMap requests users to refrain from editing borders and administrative relations of Crimean subdivisions |
| May 24 2014 | Ervin Ibragimov, a former Bakhchysarai Town Council member, went missing after being forced into a van by a group of men, with Russian authorities refusing to investigate his disappearance. |
| May 16 2014 | Russian authorities in Crimea banned the annual commemorations of the 1944 Crimean Tatars' deportation, citing potential 'provocation by extremists'. They also banned Mustafa Dzhemilev, a prominent Crimean Tatar activist, from entering Crimea. |
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