77th Airmobile Brigade is a unit of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces. The brigade was formed in the first year of the full-scale invasion, in October 2022, likely in anticipation of greater Ukrainian offensive capabilities the next year, and the expansion of the Ukrainian Elite – the Air Assault Forces, scaling up its combat effectiveness….

The unit was created as a Jaeger formation in 2022 in Pavlohrad following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Initially organized under Ground Forces command, the brigade was transferred to Air Assault Forces authority in October 2022, where it served as the sole jaeger-type formation within that branch. In January 2026 the unit was redesignated as…

95th Separate Polesian Air Assault Brigade is a military unit of Ukrainian Air Assault Troops formed in 1992. The brigade was one of the first to be deployed to repel Russian aggression in 2014. Prior to Russian full-scale invasion in February 2022, 95th Air Assault Brigade was considered to be the best Ukrainian brigade. In…

79th Air Assault Brigade is a unit of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces. The brigade was initially part of the Soviet Army, known as the 40th Air Assault Brigade. Following the establishment of an independent Ukraine, it was integrated into the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1992. In September 1993, the brigade was reformed as the…

46th Airmobile Brigade is a military unit of the Air Assault Troops. The history dates back to December 2016, when 46th Air Assault Brigade was formed. The unit participated in the multiple tactical exercises and also was deployed to Donbas. In 2020, the brigade was demobilized and a skeleton crew remained. On February 16, 2022,…

25th Airborne Brigade is a unit of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces. The brigade began its formation back in May 1993, with an order to establish the 1st Airborne Division on the basis of the 98th Guards Airborne Division going forward. On the basis of the 217th Guards Parachute Regiment from the 98th Guards Airborne…

1st Assault Regiment, named after ‘Da Vinci’, is a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Initially formed in 2014 as the 1st Assault Company of the 5th Battalion of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps, the unit underwent significant changes. On August 26, 2015, it departed from the 5th Battalion and was restructured as the 1st Company…

58th Motorized Brigade named after Hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi is a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. created on February 16, 2015 to defend Ukraine. Vyhovskyi’s soldiers passed through the hottest spots during the Anti-Terrorist Operation/Joint Forces Operation in Donbas and Luhansk Oblast: Avdiivka and Yasynuvatskyi district, Tryokhizbenka, Krymske, Zholobok, 29th checkpoint, Novotoshkivka, Toretsk, Pisky, Opytne; Stary…

Formed by Pavlo Palisa, who studied at the Command and Staff College of the US Army and returned to Ukraine to fight against the enemy. The 5th Assault Regiment was the first of its kind in the structure of Ukrainian Army and focused solely on assaulting, as the name suggested. The regiment had close ties…