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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 brigade was reported to be undergoing training in Poland. [4]
According to David Axe, as of October 2024, the 156th Brigade was one of fourteen 2,000-man brigades that had recently been formed by the Ukrainian Ground Forces.Most of these brigades, including the 156th, were formed as infantry brigades, but by October 2024, Ukrainian officials had announced the 156th would be upgraded to a mechanized brigade.
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 159th Infantry Brigade (Ukrainian: 159 окрема піхотна бригада, romanized: 159 okrema pihotna bryhada) became a mechanized brigade at some point between April and September 2024, the latest being known as the 26 September 2024, most likely due to increased and large aid from Western countries such as the United States. [5]
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 ...
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 ...
Ukraine announced a new military unit focused solely on drones. The move speaks to the continued dominance of unmanned systems in the war and the need to train soldiers to learn and adapt to the ...
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 ...