Pro Ukrainian military blogger Roman Burko has compiled a new listing of maneuver and artillery units he says are either in or next to Ukraina, and form part of the Russian Southern Military District.
Artillery of Russian Maneuver Units
19th Motorized Brigade (Vladikavkaz, South Ossetia)
Equipment:
2S19 "Msta-S" 152 mm self-propelled howitzers
9A53-G "Tornado" 122mm MRL (improved BM-21)
18th Guards Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade (Kalinovskaya, Chechnya)
Equipment:
2S3 "Akatsiya" 152mm self-propelled artillery
9A53-G "Tornado" 122mm MRL
136th Motorized Brigade (Buynaksk, Dagestan)
Equipment:
2S3 "Akatsiya" 152mm self-propelled artillery
17th Guards Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade (Shali, Chechnya)
8th Guards Independent (Mountain) Motorized Rifle Brigade (Borzoy, Chechnya)
Equipment:
2S1 "Gvozdika" 122mm self-propelled artillery
Separate Artillery Units
291st Artillery Brigade (Troitskaya, Republic of Ingushetia)
Equipment:
2A65 "Msta-B" 152 mm towed howitzers
BM-27 "Uragan" 220mm MRL
BM-21 "Grad" 122mm MRL
According to Burko, about five batteries (30 launchers total) were moved to Crimea last spring to form a new artillery regiment, 8th Separate Artillery Regiment (Simferopol, Crimea), now a naval rocket artillery unit subordinated to the Black Sea Fleet.
943rd Multiple Rocket Launcher Regiment (Krasnooktyabrskiy, Adyhea)
Equipment:
BM-27 "Uragan" 220mm MRL
1st Guards Missile Brigade (Krasnodar oblast)
Equipment:
BM-30 "Smerch" 300mm MRL
SS-21 “Scarab-B” Tactical Ballistic Missile Launcher
9K720 “Iskander-M” Theater Ballistic Missile Launcher
439th Guards Multiple Rocket Launcher Brigade (Znamensk)
Equipment:
BM-30 "Smerch" 300mm MRL
630th Training Missile Battalion (Znamensk or Vladikavkaz)
Equipment:
9K720 "Iskander-M"
275th Artillery Regiment (4th Guards Tank Division "Naro-Fominsk")
288th Artillery Regiment (Mulino, Nizhny Novgorod)
Equipment:
BM-27 "Uragan" 220mm MRL