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\"\"<\/a>Poroshenko with the marines of Ukrainian 37th Marine Brigade<\/em><\/p>\r\n\"The brigade is new, but the commanders and personnel are my good friends. We first met in 2014, they served in the famous 79th AirAssault Brigade.\" Poroshenko notes. His words indicate that the new marine brigade is probably being formed on the basis of one of the battalions of 79th AirAssault Brigade. According to the available information, the 37th Marine Brigade is being formed in the south.\r\n\r\nBack in 2019, Ukrainian Armed Forces were considering to reform Ukrainian 56th Motorized Brigade under the command of Ukrainian Naval Infantry. One of the suggested numbers of the brigade was 37. However, it never happened and 56th Motorized Brigade remained in the structure of Ukrainian Ground Forces.\r\n\r\nUpdate (February 26, 2022, 11:50): <\/strong>\r\n\r\nUkrainian Army is also forming 38th Marine Brigade. The brigade is being formed on the basis of well known 503rd Marine Battalion. Thanks to our Discord server member Dikobraz for pointing this out. This brings the number of marine brigades to four.","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2023-02-25 22:34:50","post_date_gmt":"2023-02-25 21:34:50","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-marine-brigade-is-being-formed","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-05-01 15:06:22","post_modified_gmt":"2025-05-01 13:06:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=18090","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"7","comments":[{"comment_ID":"7856","comment_post_ID":"18090","comment_author":"Jerome Rendall","comment_author_email":"info@militaryland.net","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"141.101.96.119","comment_date":"2023-03-02 08:21:10","comment_date_gmt":"2023-03-02 07:21:10","comment_content":"I couldn't find anything about 34th Marine Brigade, only one pro-Russian source claiming such, without any solid proof. In case you know more, please share with me your source.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/110.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"7855","user_id":"1","pod_item_id":"7856"},{"comment_ID":"7855","comment_post_ID":"18090","comment_author":"david","comment_author_email":"aa@frfw.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"172.70.250.227","comment_date":"2023-03-02 07:34:45","comment_date_gmt":"2023-03-02 06:34:45","comment_content":"I think there are 5 marine brigades including those being formed, the 34th is being formed in the Kremenchug area","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/110.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"7855"},{"comment_ID":"7772","comment_post_ID":"18090","comment_author":"sergej","comment_author_email":"sergejkorent@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"172.68.238.22","comment_date":"2023-02-26 09:06:03","comment_date_gmt":"2023-02-26 08:06:03","comment_content":"Probably because more weapons will arrive in the last two months than in a whole year. The Russians also increase the active Brigades in the division.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; Redmi Note 9S) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/110.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"7764","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"7772"},{"comment_ID":"7767","comment_post_ID":"18090","comment_author":"Tristan","comment_author_email":"info@spon.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"162.158.203.29","comment_date":"2023-02-26 02:03:02","comment_date_gmt":"2023-02-26 01:03:02","comment_content":"in the end, Hitler also tried to win against russia with imaginated units ...","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/110.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"7766","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"7767"},{"comment_ID":"7766","comment_post_ID":"18090","comment_author":"Tristan","comment_author_email":"tlegall29@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"172.71.134.145","comment_date":"2023-02-26 01:51:18","comment_date_gmt":"2023-02-26 00:51:18","comment_content":"Because the Ukrainian army needs to increase its size for the liberation of the occupied territories, and the are receiving heavy equipment (tanks, IFV, artillery) accordingly. \r\n\r\nSince you cannot expand the size of existing brigades, you have to create new ones.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/110.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"7764","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"7766"},{"comment_ID":"7764","comment_post_ID":"18090","comment_author":"Kay","comment_author_email":"defr0ke@dismail.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"172.70.243.31","comment_date":"2023-02-26 00:41:53","comment_date_gmt":"2023-02-25 23:41:53","comment_content":"

Why are so many new units being formed? After the war, most of them will be disbanded anyway.<\/p>


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Organizationally, it makes more sense to replenish existing units and combine decimated ones. That a unit can fight on several fronts has already been proven in this war.<\/p>","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/109.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"7764"},{"comment_ID":"7763","comment_post_ID":"18090","comment_author":"Georgian","comment_author_email":"chagalidzetornike@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"172.71.160.49","comment_date":"2023-02-26 00:00:58","comment_date_gmt":"2023-02-25 23:00:58","comment_content":"Some Russian sources claim about forming of additional 34th naval brigade and 82 air assault.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; LM-V405) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/110.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"7763"}],"_thumbnail_id":["18104","1","2023-02-25 21:38:54","2023-02-25 20:38:54","","news_marines","","inherit","open","closed","","news_marines","","","2023-02-25 21:38:54","2023-02-25 20:38:54","","18090","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/news_marines.jpg","0","attachment","image\/jpeg","0","18104"],"category":[{"term_id":"3","name":"\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0438","slug":"news","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"3","taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":"0","count":"1057","object_id":"83442","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"3"}],"post_tag":false,"post_format":false,"id":18090},{"ID":71733,"post_title":"New Commander Appointed to 39th Coastal Defense Brigade","post_content":"\n

Lieutenant Colonel Bohdan Przhehalinskyy has been appointed commander of the 39th Coastal Defense Brigade of the 30th Marine Corps of the Ukrainian Navy, according to an announcement published on the brigade\u2019s official channels. He succeeds Lieutenant Colonel Andriy Moroz, who had led the unit since July 10, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is Bohdan Przhehalinskyy?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Przhehalinskyy was born in 1994 in Kryvyi Rih. He entered the National Academy of Ground Forces in 2012, and upon graduation in 2016 was appointed platoon commander in the 1st Marine Battalion of the 36th Marine Brigade. He took part in the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Donbas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, the battalion was reorganized into the 503rd Marine Battalion, where he served as an officer within the management unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the death of the battalion\u2019s commander in March 2022, Przhehalinskyy assumed command of the 503rd Marine Battalion. In early 2025, he was appointed deputy commander of the 39th Coastal Defense Brigade, a post he held until his latest promotion.<\/p>\n","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2025-12-07 19:44:21","post_date_gmt":"2025-12-07 18:44:21","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-commander-appointed-to-39th-coastal-defense-brigade","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-12-07 19:44:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-12-07 18:44:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=71733","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"_thumbnail_id":["71738","1","2025-12-06 21:58:35","2025-12-06 20:58:35","","news_39coastal_com","","inherit","open","closed","","news_39coastal_com","","","2025-12-06 21:58:35","2025-12-06 20:58:35","","71733","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/news_39coastal_com.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","71738"],"category":[{"term_id":"3","name":"\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0438","slug":"news","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"3","taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":"0","count":"1057","object_id":"83442","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"3"},{"term_id":"4","name":"\u041e\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0456","slug":"units","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"4","taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":"0","count":"384","object_id":"83442","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"4"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":"1178","name":"\u041a\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0438\u0440","slug":"commander","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1178","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"18","object_id":"82851","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1178"},{"term_id":"1163","name":"\u043c\u043e\u0440\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0456 \u043f\u0456\u0445\u043e\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0446\u0456","slug":"marines","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1163","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"6","object_id":"75445","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1163"},{"term_id":"1157","name":"\u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0430","slug":"ukraine","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1157","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"100","object_id":"82851","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1157"}],"post_format":false,"id":71733}],"unit_equipment_previous":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/15558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/unit"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/15558\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/11754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"unit_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit_tag?post=15558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}