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Somalia Battalion, the Glossary

Separate Guards Assault Battalion "Somalia" named after M. S. Tolstykh (OSB Somalia, MUN 08828; Отдельный гвардейский штурмовой батальон «Сомали» имени М., ОШБ Сомали, в/ч 08828), often known as Somalia Battalion, is a military unit of Russian Ground Forces.^[1]

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Military of the Donetsk People's Republic
Paramilitary organizations based in Ukraine
Pro-Russian militant groups
Separatist forces of the war in Donbas
Tank units and formations

Battle of Avdiivka (2017)

The Battle of Avdiivka of 2017 was fought in late January and early February near Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, during the war in Donbas.

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Battle of Avdiivka (2023–2024)

The battle of Avdiivka was a major battle between the Russian and Ukrainian Armed Forces for control of Avdiivka, a city in Donetsk Oblast, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Battle of Ilovaisk

The Battle of Ilovaisk started on 7 August 2014, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine and pro-Ukrainian paramilitaries began a series of attempts to capture the city of Ilovaisk from pro-Russian insurgents affiliated with the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and detachments of the Russian Armed Forces.

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Battle of Pisky

The battle of Pisky was a series of military engagements for control of the ghost town of Pisky, located just outside of the city of Donetsk, between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the allied separatist Donetsk People's Republic during the battle for Donbas of the eastern Ukraine campaign.

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Black

Black is a color that results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light.

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Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model.

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BMP-1

The BMP-1 is a Soviet amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle that has been in service from 1966 to the present.

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BRDM-2

The BRDM-2 (Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dozornaya Mashina, Боевая Разведывательная Дозорная Машина, literally "Combat Reconnaissance/Patrol Vehicle") is an amphibious armoured scout car designed and developed in the Soviet Union.

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BTR-70

The BTR-70 is an eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier (armored carrier) originally developed by the Soviet Union during the late 1960s under the manufacturing code GAZ-4905.

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Business Insider

Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.

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Denis Pushilin

Denis Vladimirovich Pushilin (born 9 May 1981) is a Russian politician who is serving as the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) since 2018.

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Donetsk

Donetsk (Донецьк; Донецк), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic.

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Donetsk People's Republic

The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; Donetskaya Narodnaya Respublika (DNR),; ДНР) is a republic of Russia, comprising the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, with its capital in Donetsk.

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List of designated terrorist groups

Several national governments and two international organizations have created lists of organizations that they designate as terrorist.

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Luhansk People's Republic

The Luhansk or Lugansk People's Republic (Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika,; abbreviated as LPR or LNR, ЛНР) is a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk.

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Makiivka

Makiivka (Макіївка), formerly Dmytriivsk until 1931, is an industrial city in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, located east from Donetsk.

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-backed forces with a Buk 9M38 surface-to-air missile on 17 July 2014, while flying over eastern Ukraine.

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Mikhail Tolstykh

Mikhail Sergeyevich Tolstykh (Михаил Сергеевич Толстых; Mykhailo Serhiiovych Tolstykh; 19 July 1980 – 8 February 2017), better known by his nom de guerre Givi (Гиви), was a Ukrainian separatist officer wanted for war crimes.

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MT-LB

The MT-LB (translit, literally "multi-purpose towing vehicle light armored") is a Soviet multi-purpose, fully amphibious, tracked armored fighting vehicle in use since the 1970s.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Piracy off the coast of Somalia

Piracy off the coast of Somalia occurs in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Somali Sea, in Somali territorial waters and other surrounding places and has a long troubled history with different perspectives from different communities.

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Prizrak Brigade

The Prizrak Brigade (Ghost Brigade), founded by Aleksey Mozgovoy, is an infantry unit of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), one of the self-proclaimed breakaway states located in the Donbas. Somalia Battalion and Prizrak Brigade are paramilitary organizations based in Ukraine, pro-Russian militant groups and separatist forces of the war in Donbas.

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Red

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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RPO-A Shmel

The RPO-A Shmel (lit) is a man-portable, single-use, rocket-assisted thermobaric weapon.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian Armed Forces

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military of Russia.

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Russian Ground Forces

The Russian Ground Forces, also known as the Russian Army in English, are the land forces of the Russian Armed Forces.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Russian separatist forces in Ukraine

Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, primarily the People's Militias of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), were pro-Russian paramilitaries in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Somalia Battalion and Russian separatist forces in Ukraine are pro-Russian militant groups and separatist forces of the war in Donbas.

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Russo-Ukrainian War

The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014.

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Second Battle of Donetsk Airport

The Second Battle of Donetsk Airport was an engagement between the Ukrainian military and Russian military and its proxy forces of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) during the War in Donbas.

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Siege of Mariupol

The siege of Mariupol began on 24 February 2022 and lasted until 20 May, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Sparta Battalion

The Sparta Battalion (батальон «Спарта») or 80th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Battalion "Sparta" named after A. S. Pavlov (80-й отдельный гвардейский разведывательный батальон «Спарта» имени А.; MUN 08806) is a special purpose unit of the Russian Armed Forces. Somalia Battalion and Sparta Battalion are military of the Donetsk People's Republic, paramilitary organizations based in Ukraine, pro-Russian militant groups and separatist forces of the war in Donbas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia_Battalion

Somalia Battalion, the Glossary

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See also

Military of the Donetsk People's Republic

Paramilitary organizations based in Ukraine

Pro-Russian militant groups

Separatist forces of the war in Donbas

Tank units and formations

References