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The brigade was formed in the summer of 2024. The formation of the 160th Mechanized Brigade is part of a larger expansion of the Ukrainian Army that plans to form 10 new brigades with their numerical designation in the 160s. [1] [2] All of these brigades will be formed from freshly mobilized troops. [3]
The 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade (Ukrainian: 155 окрема механізована бригада) was a brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces formed in 2024. [2] On 4 January 2025, the brigade had been reportedy effectively disbanded due to high casualties and mass desertion .
The brigade receiving vehicles as a donation, the brigade emblem is visible. The 153rd Separate Mechanized Brigade (Ukrainian: 153 окрема механізована бригада, romanized: 153 okrema mekhanizovana bryhada) became an infantry brigade on 2 April 2024 due to a shortage of vehicles for the newly created brigades, leading to the Ukrainian command to rethink plans.
Some fighters and analysts in Ukraine believe it was a mistake for Kyiv to make brand-new brigades such as the 155th instead of replenishing older, more-experienced units that were already fighting.
For all the shelling and automatic rifle fire we see on the brutal front lines in Ukraine, so much of war is a waiting game. Ukraine's 63rd Mechanized Brigade lived in primitive trench hovels, on ...
Ukrainian leadership said in May that it wanted 10 new brigades, but Michael Kofman wrote that they'd largely proven to be ineffective in combat. Ukraine's big new strategy to relieve its troop ...
[1] [3] Later in the month, Forbes reported that these 10 new brigades would consist of 2,000 people and some of them would be infantry rather than mechanized brigades. [ 4 ] On 16 July 2024, the Chernihiv Regional State Administration publicized a video calling for individuals to join the brigade.
Ukraine has prepared an array of new military units for its long-anticipated counteroffensive this summer, while its established brigades weathered Russia's winter offensive in the east. The first ...