The 51st Air Defense Division (military unit 42352, Novocherkassk) is a territorial air defense formation of the 4th Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Southern Military District; an InformNapalm investigation linked the death of at least one officer, formally listed with the division, near Mariupol in March 2022 to intelligence activities in occupied Donbas.
Мучкин Сергей Викторович — Генерал-майор, командир 51-й дивизии ПВО
The 51st Air Defense Division (4th Guards Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Southern Military District) combines several anti-aircraft missile and radio-technical regiments (in Novorossiysk, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Astrakhan Oblast). According to an InformNapalm investigation (March 2022), servicemen formally listed with military unit 42352 (51st Air Defense Division) died in battles near Mariupol — specifically, Captain Konstantin Druzhkov, who was officially assigned to the division but actually served in the intelligence department of the Southern Military District headquarters and repeatedly traveled on assignments to occupied Donbas. The unit appears in the lists of subdivisions linked to war crime cases maintained by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine.
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