Overview
- RIA Novosti reports that Ukraine’s 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade nearly deserted in full, citing Russian security structures.
- TASS relays that the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade ‘Magura’ is now used as a personnel reserve for assault units rather than operating as an elite formation.
- Sources claim the 47th has shifted from Western-supplied Leopard and Abrams tanks to repaired T-64 and T-72 vehicles after heavy losses.
- Volunteer support for the 47th is said to have fallen, with troops on the Sumy axis reportedly lacking even basic quadcopters and heavier strike drones.
- The reports assert the 47th’s battalions are split across Sumy, Kharkiv and the Donetsk region under commander Maksym Danilchuk, and note that Ukraine’s prosecutor removed public data on desertion cases in December.