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Despite severe manpower and equipment shortages across existing formations, Ukraine\u2019s Commander-in-Chief, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, recently announced the creation of additional mechanized brigades to counter the Russian invasion. He cited potential aggressive actions from Belarus as a reason for expanding the force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement confirms previous reports regarding the formation of the 50th and 167th Mechanized Brigades within the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Additionally, a new 55th Mechanized Brigade is currently being raised, according to listings on the Ukrainian recruiting portal LobbyX<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This unit marks the third new mechanized brigade established in 2026 as part of a broader expansion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Additional formations are rumored to be currently undergoing the official approval process.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite severe manpower and equipment shortages across existing formations, Ukraine\u2019s Commander-in-Chief, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, recently announced the creation of additional mechanized brigades to counter the Russian invasion. He cited potential…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87185,"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":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1142,1143,1146,1152,1157],"class_list":["post-87184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-units","tag-army","tag-ground-forces","tag-mechanized","tag-new-unit","tag-ukraine"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"},{"value":4,"label":"Units"}],"post_tag":[{"value":1142,"label":"Army"},{"value":1143,"label":"Ground Forces"},{"value":1146,"label":"Mechanized"},{"value":1152,"label":"New unit"},{"value":1157,"label":"ukraine"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/news_newbrigades-1024x536.webp",1024,536,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":1066,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1066,"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":394,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":4,"category_count":394,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Units","category_nicename":"units","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":1142,"name":"Army","slug":"army","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1142,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":301,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1143,"name":"Ground Forces","slug":"ground-forces","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1143,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":66,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1146,"name":"Mechanized","slug":"mechanized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1146,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1152,"name":"New unit","slug":"new-unit","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1152,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":22,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1157,"name":"ukraine","slug":"ukraine","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1157,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":105,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87184","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=87184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87189,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87184\/revisions\/87189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}