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The Khyzhak Brigade (Ukrainian: Хижак, lit. 'Predator') is a Brigade of the Ukrainian Special Police Forces. It was established in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a detachment which became a brigade on 25 June 2024. [1] [2] It has seen extensive combat during the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Members of the Spartan brigade told Reuters in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia that the Russian troops have expert knowledge of the terrain where Danger lurks behind 'every bush' for brigade ...
In February, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs launched the Offensive Guard project, which aims to establish eight volunteer assault brigades by April 2023. [2] The project has called for volunteers to join the effort, with particular emphasis on active members of the National Police , State Border Guard, and National Guard, as well as ...
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 ...
The brigade was formed after a Ukrainian mobilization law came into force, seeing the draft age being lowered from 27 to 25 and placing penalties for those avoiding conscription. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] This law also saw prisoners being able to join the armed forces .
The brigade took part in a counteroffensive in eastern Ukraine last summer and fought in the battle of Bakhmut, another town in eastern Ukraine that held out for many months before being captured ...
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.
Ukrainian military soldiers fire from the MT-12 or 2A29 gun ‘Rapira' is a Soviet smoothbore 100-mm anti-tank gun on December 7, 2023 in Avdiivka (Getty Images)