Luhansk-1 Regiment is a separate assault regiment of Lyut Brigade of Ukrainian Offensive Guard. The unit was formed as battalion alongside Timur and Stakhanov battalions in May 2014 in Luhansk Oblast, primarily from policemen from Luhansk Oblast who didn’t betrayal their oath and remained loyal to Ukraine. However, due to the worsening situation in Luhansk,…

Lavender company was a consolidated detachment of traffic and special police in Rivne region. The unit was formed on the basis of the disbanded Berkut unit in Rivne. Although Lavander was the official name of the unit, it didn’t gain much popularity and consolidated detachment of Rivne Oblast was used instead. As of 2020, the…

Kyiv Regiment was a Special Purpose Patrol Police unit formed in November 2015 by merging volunteer police battalions Kyiv-1, Kyiv-2, Zoloti Vorota, Sich and Svyata Mariya under a single command. In 2016, Svyata Mariya unit was disbanded by its commander, stating that the members volunteered to fight against the enemy, not to protect public order….

Company Kryvbas is a unit of Special Purpose Patrol Police, created in June 2014 in the structure of National Police as Kryvbas Battalion. Volunteers, local policemen and military veterans of Dnipro Oblast joined the unit. In 2016, the unit was reformed into a company under the command of the newly estabilished National Police. On October…

Kharkiv battalion was a police unit formed from three volunteer units: Kharkiv-1, Kharkiv-2 and Slobozhanshchina. The unit served in the vicinity of Mariupol, on the temporary border crossing located near Marinka in Donetsk Region and guarded football matches of Shakhtar Donetsk in Champions League. In 2018, Kharkiv battalion participated in action against several members of…

Ivano-Frankivsk Company is a unit of Special Tasks Patrol Police, formed in April 2014 as a battalion on the order of Ministry of Internal Affairs. The unit was formed from volunteers and former members of Berkut police. The unit participated in the War in Donbas. On April 16, 2022 the unit celebrated its 8th anniversary….

East Company is a unit of Special Tasks Patrol Police, created in May 2018 on the basis of Eastern Corps Company. The company was founded by a formed member of Azov Regiment and the unit retains close ties to them. The original founder of Eastern Corps Company, Oleg Shiryaev, was banished from the unit due…

Regiment Dnipro-1 is a unit of Special Tasks Patrol Police created in April 2014 and was the first volunteer unit formed under the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2014. Originally formed as a battalion, the unit was accused several times of being a private army of Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoyskyi, who financially supported the battalion until…

Chernihiv Company is a unit of Special Tasks Patrol Police and one of the first volunteer units created in 2014. The unit was formed as a volunteer battalion on April 16 in Chernihiv Oblast, primarily by the members of 14th Maidan Self-Defense unit (prominent first-line Maidan volunteers consisting of Desna Ultras). The battalion was tasked…

Bohdan Company is a unit of Special Tasks Patrol Police, created in June 2014 in Khmelnytskyi Oblast. Unlike most other volunteer units of Police, Bohdan company was formed mostly from the disbanded local detachment of Berkut. The commander openly criticized the order to disband Berkut and blamed the government for the situation in Donbas. Nevertheless,…