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The 30th Guards Tank Division, along with the rest of the 8th Tank Army and the Carpathian Military District, became part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces according to the order of Ukraine About Armed Forces of Ukraine from December 6, 1991. In February 1992, all units of the division pledged their allegiance to Ukraine.
The 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Belarusian), [a] originally called the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian), [b] was a short-lived German Waffen-SS infantry division formed largely from Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian personnel of the Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling in August 1944 at Warsaw in the General Government.
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 Auxiliary Police (German: Ukrainische Hilfspolizei; Ukrainian: Українська допоміжна поліція, romanized: Ukrainska dopomizhna politsiia) was the official title of the local police formation (a type of hilfspolizei) set up by Nazi Germany during World War II in Eastern Galicia and Reichskommissariat Ukraine, shortly after the German occupation of the ...
The Schutzmannschaft, or Auxiliary Police (lit. "protection team"; Ukrainian: Шуцманство; plural: Schutzmannschaften, [nb 1] abbreviated as Schuma) was the collaborationist auxiliary police of native policemen serving in those areas of the Soviet Union and the Baltic states occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 (Ukrainian Schuma) [1] was a Schutzmannschaft auxiliary police battalion (Schuma). The core of the Schutzmannschaft battalion 118 consisted of Ukrainian nationalists from Bukovina in western Ukraine , and the unit included other nationalities. [ 2 ]
The Ukrainian National Army (Ukrainian: Українська національна армія, romanized: Ukrainska natsionalna armiia, abbreviated УНА, UNA) was a World War II Ukrainian military group, created on March 17, 1945, in the town of Weimar, Nazi Germany, and subordinate to Ukrainian National Committee.
In 1997, on the basis of an armored regiment of what is now the 72nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the 1st Tank Brigade was raised. These two brigades were the armored fist the nation had for so many years till 2014 and the War in Donbass, in which the armored force was increased in strength and numbers with the raising of new brigades.