{"id":72850,"date":"2025-12-15T08:53:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=72850"},"modified":"2025-12-15T08:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:53:42","slug":"ukrainian-elite-troops-have-a-new-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/news\/ukrainian-elite-troops-have-a-new-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0456 \u0435\u043b\u0456\u0442\u043d\u0456 \u0432\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0430 \u043e\u0442\u0440\u0438\u043c\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u043d\u043e\u0432\u0443 \u0431\u0440\u0438\u0433\u0430\u0434\u0443"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The elite Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have officially established a new brigade-sized unit. The 78th Air Assault Brigade has been formed from the existing 78th Air Assault Regiment, commonly known as the Hertz Regiment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/846217664822024\/\">The announcement<\/a> was made via the unit&#8217;s official social media channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rumors of the expansion had circulated for several months, as the 78th Regiment was previously the only regiment-sized formation within the Air Assault Forces. With this restructuring, the Air Assault Forces now boast five air assault brigades and a total of twelve frontline brigades.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading72850_261895-3b, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading72850_261895-3b[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading72850_261895-3b\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading72850_261895-3b mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading72850_261895-3b[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading72850_261895-3b\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading72850_261895-3b wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading72850_261895-3b\">About Hertz unit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The unit was established shortly after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It was initially formed as a Special Purpose Company within the National Guard of Ukraine before being reassigned to the Main Intelligence Directorate, where it operated as a consolidated detachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April 2023, the unit was transferred to the Air Assault Forces and expanded to regimental strength, officially becoming the 78th Air Assault Regiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early 2024, the unit joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/air-assault-forces\/7th-air-assault-corps\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"26772\">7th Rapid Reaction Corps<\/a> of the Air Assault Forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0412 \u0435\u043b\u0456\u0442\u043d\u0438\u0445 \u0414\u0435\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0442\u043d\u043e-\u0448\u0442\u0443\u0440\u043c\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0445 \u0432\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0430\u0445 \u0417\u0431\u0440\u043e\u0439\u043d\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u0438\u043b \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0438 \u043e\u0444\u0456\u0446\u0456\u0439\u043d\u043e \u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0435\u043d\u043e \u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0439 \u043f\u0456\u0434\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0456\u043b \u0431\u0440\u0438\u0433\u0430\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0440\u0456\u0432\u043d\u044f. 78-\u0430 \u0434\u0435\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0442\u043d\u043e-\u0448\u0442\u0443\u0440\u043c\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u0431\u0440\u0438\u0433\u0430\u0434\u0430 \u0441\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0430 \u043d\u0430 \u0431\u0430\u0437\u0456 \u0456\u0441\u043d\u0443\u044e\u0447\u043e\u0457 78-\u0457 \u043e\u043a\u0440\u0435\u043c\u043e\u0457 \u0434\u0435\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0442\u043d\u043e-\u0448\u0442\u0443\u0440\u043c\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0457...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1197,1142,1162,1157],"class_list":["post-72850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-units","tag-air-assault","tag-army","tag-expansion","tag-ukraine"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"},{"value":4,"label":"Units"}],"post_tag":[{"value":1197,"label":"air assault"},{"value":1142,"label":"Army"},{"value":1162,"label":"expansion"},{"value":1157,"label":"ukraine"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/news_78brigade-1024x478.webp",1024,478,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jerome Rendall","author_link":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/author\/ml_admin\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1080,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1080,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0},{"term_id":4,"name":"Units","slug":"units","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":402,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":4,"category_count":402,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Units","category_nicename":"units","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":1197,"name":"air assault","slug":"air-assault","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1197,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1142,"name":"Army","slug":"army","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1142,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":303,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1162,"name":"expansion","slug":"expansion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1162,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1157,"name":"ukraine","slug":"ukraine","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1157,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":106,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}