The Kaminski Brigade later became part of the Waffen-SS as the SS Sturmbrigade RONA (Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Narodnaya Armiya — Russian People's Liberation Army).

Under Kaminski's command, the unit committed numerous war crimes and atrocities in the German-occupied Soviet Union and in Poland.

His brigade was later disbanded and its remaining personnel absorbed into General Andrey Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army.

Bronislav (also transliterated German-style as "Bronislaw") Kaminski was born in Vitebsk Governorate, the Russian Empire, now in Polotsk District, Belarus.

[2] He studied at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University and then served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.

[3] In 1935 he was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and in 1937 during the Great Purge he was arrested for criticising Stalin's policy of farm collectivisation, as well as working with Germans and Poles.

Voskoboinik was appointed by the Germans as the Starosta (or Mayor) of the "Lokot volost" and the head of the German-controlled local militia.

[7] Kaminski became Voskoboinik's deputy; working with Heinz Guderian the two collaborators organized a militia of 10,000 armed men with the aim of crushing the Russian partisans.

On 19 July 1942, after approval by the Commander of Army Group Centre, Field Marshal Günther von Kluge, Schmidt and the 532 Area commander, Kaminski received a degree of autonomy and nominal self-governing authority, under the supervision of Major von Veltheim and Colonel Rübsam.

Kaminski ordered the collection of abandoned (usually because of minor mechanical failures, or lack of fuel) Soviet tanks and armored cars.

Fearing a breakdown in command, a German liaison staff was attached to Kaminski's HQ to restructure the brigade and return stability to the unit.

On 29 July 1943 Kaminski issued orders for the evacuation of the property and families of the RONA brigade and the Lokot authorities.

On 15 February 1944, Kaminski issued an order for the brigade and Lokot administration to retreat further west to the Dzyatlava area in western Belarus.

During these operations, local civilians were murdered as "suspected partisans" or deported as slave laborers, their villages burnt down.

As the result of Operation Bagration, the anti-partisan activities of the brigade were halted and its personnel (6–7,000 people, though some sources state 3–4,000) were collected at the SS training camp Neuhammer.

Hitler personally requested Kaminski's assistance, and the latter obliged by gathering a task force of 1,700 unmarried men and sending them (some sources mentioned that they had four T-34 tanks, one SU-76 and a few artillery pieces) to Warsaw as a mixed regiment under field command of Kaminski's brigade chief-of-staff, SS-Sturmbannführer Yuri Frolov.

[16] Heinrich Himmler used the misconduct of the Warsaw group as a pretext for having Kaminski and his leadership executed after trial by court martial in Litzmannstadt (Łódź).

After Kaminski's death, his unit was placed under the command of SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Polizei Christoph Diehm.