Ukraine's 'I Want To Live' Names 2,000 Russian 810th Marines Killed

Ukraine's "I want to live" and "I want to find" projects were set up to help Russian soldiers defect or escape from service in the war and to help Russian families searching for sons, husbands, fathers or other relatives who have not been heard from or about whom the Kremlin claims to know nothing. 

Among the units from whom the most number of requests to either escape service or help learn the whereabouts of serving soldiers has been received is Russia's 810th Naval Infantry, which has served in Ukraine since 2022 and has been depleted by so many casualties that it has had to be reconstituted several times. The project just released the names, ranks, dates of birth and deaths of 2,000 members of the unit, illustrating the reason why so many of its officers and other ranks and their families were so concerned about them. JL

Taras Safronov reports in Militarnyi:

The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade was among the units of the Russian Armed Forces with the largest number of requests to the project “I Want to Find” to search for missing persons. For the entire year of 2024, 1708 applications were received from relatives of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, which was the ninth highest figure among all units of the Russian army. Transferred from Kherson to Kursk, the brigade has suffered significant losses since 2022 and (has had to be rebuilt) several times.

The “I Want to Live” project has published a list of deceased soldiers of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

The list contains more than 2,000 names with ranks, dates of birth and death.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the brigade has changed its personnel several times.

The unit was actively transferred between different parts of the front line, from Kherson to the Kursk region.

In 2022, the brigade suffered significant losses of personnel while deployed in the Kherson sector.

 

In 2024, the command sent marines to the Kursk region to storm Ukrainian positions.

“Most of the 2014 names on our list are those who died during the Kursk period,” the project said.

In the same period, the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade was among the units of the Russian Armed Forces with the largest number of requests to the project “I Want to Find” to search for missing persons.

For the entire year of 2024, 1708 applications were received from relatives of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, which was the ninth highest figure among all units of the Russian army.

“The marines can ”thank” their commander Oleg Vlasov for these results. Under his leadership, soldiers are being mindlessly thrown into assaults – through minefields and literally on crutches. It is not surprising that the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade recorded cases of officers being killed by their subordinates, and the Ukrainian Defense Forces repeatedly struck command posts and places where the unit’s personnel were gathered – the “abilities” of Vlasov and his colleagues are obvious,” the project notes.

Oleg Vlasov. Photo credits: Russian Ministry of Defense

In December 2024, the deputy commander of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Russian Federation, who was stationed at the command post in the city of Lgov, Kursk region, was eliminated.

In September 2024, the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine struck the base of the 810th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade in the Kursk region.