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The 17th Heavy Mechanized Brigade is a brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces formed in 1940. The full name of the brigade is the 17th Separate Kryvorizka Heavy Mechanized Brigade , named after Kostiantyn Pestushko .
Insignia of Ukrainian Guards units. The Armed Forces of Ukraine had a large number of Guards units. [1] On 22 August 2016, with the removal of Soviet distinctions from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Guards titles were removed from the names of the units. [2] The page lists all former Ukrainian guards units.
The Ukrainian oath of loyalty that was administered was not based on ethnicity or linguistics but on a civic identity, and turned the Soviet Army in Ukraine into the modern Ukrainian Ground Forces. As of February 1992, about 80% of personnel had taken the oath, according to Defense Minister Morozov.
For soldiers in Ukraine's "Spartan" brigade, danger could lurk behind every bush and in every field as they fight in Kyiv's counteroffensive against deeply entrenched Russian forces. Progress ...
One Ukrainian brigade had defended the same block of industrial buildings for months without a break. Another had been in Avdiivka for nearly the entire two years of the war, bone-tired but with ...
Since 12 January 2023, Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov was appointed as commander of military operations in Ukraine, with Surovikin as his deputy. [18] The actual operational chain of command of the Russian military effort in Ukraine is not public, changes, and is a mix of state and non-state bodies.
Ukraine and Russia have been fighting in the streets of Chasiv Yar, a city in the Donetsk region, since July, when Kyiv’s troops withdrew from the eastern Kanal neighbourhood, establishing the ...
The brigade began operations as the 17th Separate Special Purpose Brigade of the Soviet Navy, being reformed into the 1464th Naval Reconnaissance Battalion before the Dissolution of Soviet Union, after which on 9 April 1992, two thirds of officers and all other personnel of the Battalion under Commander Anatoly Leonidovich Karpenko swore allegiance to Ukraine, and the Battalion became 7th ...