18th Army Aviation Brigade is a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. It was formed in February 2015 to meet the demands of operations involving army aviation. However, the brigade only became functional and operational on October 1, 2015, with the first Mi-8 helicopter being inducted into the brigade. The brigade was established on the…

16th Army Aviation Brigade is a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the 119th Helicopter Regiment of the Soviet Army was transferred under the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in December 1991. On August 26, 1994, the regiment was reformed and expanded into the 3rd Army Aviation…

12th Army Aviation Brigade is a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. It was formed on the basis of the 340th Long-Range Aviation Regiment, which was stationed in Czechoslovakia before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces after Ukraine gained its independence. Immediately, the unit was redesignated as the 7th…

41st Mechanized Brigade is a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, formed on February 23, 2023, from mobilized personnel during the 2023 mobilization wave. Training was conducted at NATO training facilities, primarily in the United Kingdom. Some servicemen later criticized the NATO-led training as insufficiently adapted to the conditions of the war in Ukraine, arguing…

82nd Air Assault Brigade is a unit of Ukrainian Air Assault Forces. It was formed in September 2022 on the basis of the 3rd Battalion Tactical Group, as part of the 80th Air Assault Brigade, and pulled selected personnel from the 25th Airborne Brigade. Prior to the Ukrainian summer counteroffensive directed towards southern Ukraine, aimed…

12th Operational Brigade was a military unit of the Eastern Territorial Administration of the National Guard of Ukraine. Its history dates back to 1990, when the 129th Motorized Militia Battalion was formed in Mariupol. On January 2, 1992, the 10th Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine was established on its basis. In 1995, the…

101st Guard Brigade of General Staff is an elite unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and reports directly to the Commander-in-Chief and the General Staff. It’s the only brigade in the Armed Forces of Ukraine that does not belong to any military branch. On February 24, 2022, the brigade was stationed in Kyiv and…

11th Army Aviation Brigade is a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. It was formed following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of an independent Ukrainian nation. It was officially established in January 1992 on the basis of the 320th Helicopter Regiment, part of the former Soviet Army. During the conflict in…

49th Artillery Brigade was a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The brigade was first formed in 2022; however only began to come to public light at the beginning of Spring 2023, most likely in anticipation of the upcoming Ukrainian offensive towards Melitopol in the summer of that year. It was formed entirely from Ukrainian…

Kraken Active Operations Unit is a unit of the Department of Active Operations, as part of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine. The unit was established by Konstantin Nemichev on March 12, 2022, shortly following the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. It was formed on the basis of the 225th…