The Russians will hold command posts in the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the so-called “DNR” and “LNR”. As noted by Vadym Skibitskyi, Russian cadre military personnel are filling positions of brigade commanders, their deputies and battalion commanders.

According to military intelligence, over 3000 Russian cadre servicemen are part of the terrorist-occupying troops on the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.