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As of 2017 Ukraine's army fields four Army Aviation brigades in an Army Aviation Command directly subordinated to the Ground Forces HQ, each in support of operational commands of the UGF: 11th Army Aviation Brigade, Kherson; 12th Army Aviation Brigade, Novyi Kalyniv; 16th Army Aviation Brigade, Brody; 18th Army Aviation Brigade, Poltava
There are 13 mechanized brigades and two mountain warfare brigades in the Mechanized Forces. Ukraine also has two armoured brigades. There are also seven rocket and artillery brigades. Until 2013, the Ground Forces were divided into three army corps.
The Ukrainian Army unveiled its current uniform on Independence Day in 2016. [166] The new uniforms were modeled on British and Polish military styles [166] and incorporate details from the uniforms worn by the Ukrainian People's Army. [166] The cap includes an insignia of a Ukrainian Cossack grasping a cross. [166]
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In late 2014 the system of territorial defense of Ukraine changed. [13] Territorial defense battalions were reorganized and transferred to the mechanized infantry brigade of the Army. [14] To replace them, a new structure of the territorial defense forces of the Armed Forces was gradually introduced. [4]
A Ukrainian brigade made up of thousands of soldiers trained in France and armed with French-supplied light battle tanks, artillery, and heavy weaponry is about to enter the fight against Russia.
On June 8, 2023, the 47th Mechanized Brigade engaged in the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive and suffered heavy material losses. [14] [15] On July 11, 2023, headmaster sergeant Valerii Markus, who had met with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the end of June, complained about the decisions of the unit's command regarding lack of interest in soldiers morale and officers incompetence.
Ukraine's 63rd Mechanized Brigade lived in primitive trench hovels, on a tract of land near Mykolaiv, for five months. As Newsy's Jason Bellini reports, the front has moved East, and no so have ...