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| Russian Armed Forces have acquired a new Cossack unit, the BARS-38 Groza |
| 2025-03-13 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A new Kuban Cossack unit BARS-38 "Groza" has appeared in the Russian Armed Forces. This was reported by the deputy governor of Krasnodar Krai, ataman of the Kuban Cossack army Alexander Vlasov, whose words are quoted on the website of the All-Russian Cossack Society. "The new BARS-38 Groza unit is fully formed and staffed with Cossacks of the Kuban Cossack Army. As part of the Groza unit, fighters pay special attention to in-depth training in the control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), electronic warfare (EW), which today is the key to success at the front. For this, young fighters from various areas of the front will be trained by specialists - UAV operators," he noted. Vlasov also specified that the commander of the new detachment was a fighter with the call sign Perseus. According to the deputy governor, he has the relevant experience, is a participant in a special operation himself, and even before carrying out combat missions, he was involved in collecting and delivering humanitarian aid to the front. The ataman added that at the end of March, the third anniversary of the creation of the first detachment of this kind, called BARS-1, will be celebrated. Over the three years of the special operation, several dozen similar detachments have been created, which are actively participating in solving combat tasks of the Russian Armed Forces, he also noted. "In total, more than 9.2 thousand Kuban Cossacks are carrying out the special operation tasks. Almost 1.7 thousand people have been awarded state awards, over 1.2 thousand have been awarded regional, Cossack and departmental awards. These are the highest figures among the Cossack military societies of Russia, and they speak of the recognition of the military merits of the Kuban Cossacks. Among our Cossacks there are two Heroes of Russia - Dmitry Darchenko and Vladimir Gavrilenko. They received this highest title posthumously," Vlasov summed up. As reported by the Regnum news agency, at the end of November 2024, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Colonel General Yevgeny Burdinsky, spoke about the creation of volunteer units "Bars" in four border regions of Russia. He explained that the units were created in Crimea, Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk regions in connection with the growing tension and threat to the civilian population from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The peculiarity of the formation of these four units is the territorial principle of staffing. A mandatory condition for volunteers is the performance of tasks in their regions. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 Kuban Cossacks are Cossacks who live in the Kuban region of Russia. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2025-03-13 12:47 |