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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with servicemen and the families of fallen heroes. During the ceremony, he presented the nation's highest state awards, combat flags, and ribbons for the honorary distinction \"For Courage and Bravery\" to unit commanders. 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08:48:58","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-army-celebrated-the-infantry-day","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-09 22:43:45","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-09 20:43:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=48345","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"1","comments":[{"comment_ID":"15346","comment_post_ID":"48345","comment_author":"embor","comment_author_email":"embor22121994@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"46.150.79.167","comment_date":"2025-05-07 19:55:24","comment_date_gmt":"2025-05-07 17:55:24","comment_content":"it seems that 65th and 128th brigades recieved their honorary title much earlier (during December 2024, acvording to the cite of President of Ukraine)","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) 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Having taken command in 2024, Colonel Izbash led the brigade through a period of strong performance in the defense of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Under his leadership, the brigade earned recognition as one of the top 20 most effective units in Ukraine\u2019s Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>\"I consider the greatest achievement to be that we have learned how to protect our soldiers\u2014they are the most valuable \u201cgold reserve\u201d of our Army. In this short time, we have opened two of our own recruitment centers, which are now bringing in motivated fighters who are psychologically prepared to carry out their duties in the assigned zone. We have properly organized rest for our servicemen after combat rotations, and their heroism is now being duly recognized at the national level,\"<\/em> says the now former commander.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/blockquote>\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Higher command has appointed Colonel Izbash to a new role within the Defense Forces, and rumors suggest he may soon assume command of one of the army corps. 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However, <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/65th-brigade-sees-command-change\/\">MilitaryLand recently reported<\/a> on the departure of Volodymyr Izbash, the former commander of the 65th Mechanized Brigade, noting his appointment to a higher position.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2025-07-04 09:48:23","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-04 07:48:23","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"three-brigades-join-17th-army-corps","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-07-04 14:08:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-07-04 12:08:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=55117","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"10","comments":[{"comment_ID":"15430","comment_post_ID":"55117","comment_author":"Jerome Rendall","comment_author_email":"info@militaryland.net","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"78.102.68.47","comment_date":"2025-07-05 12:31:27","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-05 10:31:27","comment_content":"Off topic. Closed.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/140.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15419","user_id":"1","pod_item_id":"15430"},{"comment_ID":"15429","comment_post_ID":"55117","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.104.156","comment_date":"2025-07-05 11:45:21","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-05 09:45:21","comment_content":"No glass ball needed - just watching the same experts who\u2019ve been confidently wrong three years in a row.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/138.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15428","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15429"},{"comment_ID":"15428","comment_post_ID":"55117","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"46.59.134.43","comment_date":"2025-07-05 10:03:19","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-05 08:03:19","comment_content":"Are you looking into a glas ball?\r\nSo they made a low(!) four digit advance in 6 months and now, magically, they are \"occasionally\" to advance 1000 km\u00b2 in a month? That's 0,17 %\u00a0total Ukrainian territory. All with 27 to 167 casualties per km\u00b2 gained. It's not about territory anymore. It's about breaking the will to fight. But with at least 27000 casualties for 1000 km\u00b2, the attacker can break too.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/137.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15425","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15428"},{"comment_ID":"15425","comment_post_ID":"55117","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.100.2","comment_date":"2025-07-04 23:18:08","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-04 21:18:08","comment_content":"What you\u2019ll see going forward is an accelerating pace of Russian advances. I expect to see occasional monthly advances reaching into the four digits.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/137.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15422","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15425"},{"comment_ID":"15424","comment_post_ID":"55117","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.100.175","comment_date":"2025-07-04 21:25:17","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-04 19:25:17","comment_content":"Hello loser","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/137.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15420","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15424"},{"comment_ID":"15423","comment_post_ID":"55117","comment_author":"Fury","comment_author_email":"lyubomir.riback@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"93.170.117.38","comment_date":"2025-07-04 18:32:17","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-04 16:32:17","comment_content":"In addition, this is over 11 years of war","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/138.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15422","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15423"},{"comment_ID":"15422","comment_post_ID":"55117","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b20:4900:ade3:1614:b3e2:3892","comment_date":"2025-07-04 17:03:21","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-04 15:03:21","comment_content":"Ukraine covers 603.628&nbsp;km\u00b2. 1,834 km\u00b2 corresponds roughly to 0,3 % of total Ukrainian territory. As of 11.06.2025, Russia occupies 19% or \u2248114,710 km\u00b2. 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