The main Russian military base in Ukraine is the fleet headquarters and naval infantry brigade headquarters at Sevastopol. There are four coastal missile regiments each located in four different bases.
The 810 Naval Infantry Brigade is the main combat unit of Russian armed forces based in Sevastopol with a total of 1,088 personnel.
This unit is equipped with BTR-80 (8x8 armoured personnel carrier), BTR-82A (8x8 armoured personnel carrier) BMP-2 (Armoured infantry fighting vehicle), BPM-1K (Command post tracked vehicle). 2S1 Gvozdika (122mm self-propelled howitzer), 2S9 Nona (mortar carrier vehicle), 2S23 (mortar carier), SA-8 (Surface-to-Air defense missile system), MT-LB (multirole tracked armoured vehicle), PRP-3 (Reconnaissance armoured vehicle), PRP-4 (Reconnaissance armoured vehicle), BTR-60 PU-12 (mobile command post), 1V19 (Artillery support vehicle), BREM-2 (Tracked armoured recovery vehicle), MT-55A (armoured vehicle-launched bridge) and MTU-20 (tracked bridge layer vehicle). | |  | The BTR-80 is a Russian-made 8x8 armoured vehicle personnel carrier designed and manufactured by the Company Arzamas machinery Construction Plant of Nizhny Novgorod. The BTR-80 8 x 8 armored personnel carrier is designed to carry infantry soldiers on the battlefield and provide close fire support.
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| |  | The BTR-82A is an upgraded version of the BTR-80A wheeled armored vehicles. In December 2008, Russia's Military Industrial Company (MIC) was already testing the prototypes which were unveiled in December 2009.
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| |  | The BMP-2 is tracked infantry armoured fighting vehicle designed and manufactured by the Russian defence industry. This vehicle was based on the Russian-made BMP-1. The BMP-2 was manufactured under license in India under the name of "Sarath", and also in some east countries, as the Czech Republic under the name of BVP-2.
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| |  | The 2S23 also named Nona-SVK is a Russian made wheeled self-propelled mortar carrier. The 2S23 was first revealed at a defence exhibition in Asia in late 1990 when a complete system was displayed for the first time.
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| |  | The 2S1 Gvozdika is a Russian-made 122mm self-propelled howitzer tracked armoured vehicle. The first prototype was ready in 1969. The 2S1 entered service with the Soviet Army in the early 1970s and was first seen in public at a Polish Army parade in 1974.
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| |  | The SA-8 Gecko NATO code name (Russian name 9K33 OSA) is russian made a highly mobile, low-altitude, short-range tactical surface-to-air missile system. "9K33" is its GRAU designation |
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