{"id":18571,"date":"2023-03-11T17:57:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T16:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?post_type=unit&p=18571"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:31:45","slug":"12th-operational-brigade","status":"publish","type":"unit","link":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/ukraine\/national-guard\/12th-operational-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"12-\u0442\u0430 \u043e\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043d\u0430 \u0431\u0440\u0438\u0433\u0430\u0434\u0430"},"content":{"rendered":"

12-\u0442\u0430 \u043e\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043d\u0430 \u0431\u0440\u0438\u0433\u0430\u0434\u0430<\/strong> was a military unit of the Eastern Territorial Administration of the National Guard of Ukraine. Its history dates back to 1990, when the 129th Motorized Militia Battalion was formed in Mariupol. On January 2, 1992, the 10th Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine was established on its basis. In 1995, the battalion was transferred to the Internal Troops of Ukraine and renamed the 17th Motorized Battalion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 16, 2014, following the annexation of Crimea, servicemen of the unit repelled an attempt to seize their barracks in Mariupol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2014, the battalion was reorganized into the 18th Operational Regiment of the National Guard. Its ranks were reinforced with personnel from the Azov and Donbas battalions. In September 2016, the Donbas Battalion was transferred to the 15th Regiment stationed in Slovyansk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2019, the unit was reorganized into the 12th Brigade of Operational Assignment, with the Azov Regiment and two operational-purpose battalions under its command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 24, 2022, the brigade was stationed in Mariupol and was tasked with the defense of the city. Together with other Ukrainian units, it defended Mariupol until May 20, 2022, when the remaining defenders surrendered to Russian forces at the Azovstal steel plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2023, the Azov Regiment was expanded into the 12th Special Purpose Brigade \u201cAzov,\u201d formed on the basis of its former parent unit. The 12th Brigade of Operational Assignment subsequently ceased to exist.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

12th Operational Brigade was a military unit of the Eastern Territorial Administration of the National Guard of Ukraine. Its history dates back to 1990, when the 129th Motorized Militia Battalion was formed in Mariupol. On January 2, 1992, the 10th Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine was established on its basis. 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The 2nd battalion fought near Kyiv and is now deployed somewhere in the eastern Ukraine.\n\n\"\"Azov Regiment - tank company<\/strong><\/a>\nNational Guard of Ukraine<\/em>\nThe Azov's tank company with its ten T-64B1M tanks is deployed to Mariupol as well. We have so far a visual confirmation of one tank loss.\n\n\"\"12th Operational Brigade<\/strong>\nNational Guard of Ukraine<\/em>\nThe 1st patrol battalion, a reserve company and special patrol company are deployed to Mariupol.\n\n\"\"36th Marines Brigade<\/strong>\nUkrainian Navy<\/em>\nThe 501st battalion and tank company equipped with T-80BVs are fighting inside Mariupol. The 1st battalion of the brigade is deployed near Mykolaiv.\n\n\"\"503rd Marines Battalion<\/strong><\/del>\nUkrainian Navy<\/em><\/del>\nThe separate Marines battalion is deployed to Mariupol in its full strength. They closely cooperate with 501st battalion.<\/del>\n\n\"\"Mariupol Sea Border Guards<\/strong>\nBorder Guards<\/em>\nA coast guard unit. Their boats have been docked in the port since the first day of invasion, but the troops are fighting alongside regular units inside the city.\n\n\"\"56th Mechanized Brigade<\/strong>\nArmed Forces of Ukraine<\/em>\nThe brigade's HQ is located in Mariupol. It's possible there are some rear elements present in Mariupol, but we aren't 100% sure. All combat battalions have been deployed near Donetsk airport since January.\n\n\"\"Kord Special Police Unit<\/strong>\nMinistry of Internal Affairs<\/em>\nMariupol's police and Kord special police unit are defending the city alongside the Ukrainian troops.\n\n\"\"109th Territorial Defense Brigade<\/strong>\nArmed Forces of Ukraine<\/em>\nOne battalion (of six battalions) and the brigade's HQ staff is present in Mariupol.","post_excerpt":"The list of Ukrainian units who have been heroically defending the besieged city of Mariupol for longer than 40 days and counting.","post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-04-13 17:45:20","post_date_gmt":"2022-04-13 16:45:20","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"units-defending-mariupol","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-23 13:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-23 12:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=7158","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"8","comments":[{"comment_ID":"1286","comment_post_ID":"7158","comment_author":"pablo","comment_author_email":"beksinski82@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"162.158.22.50","comment_date":"2022-04-17 11:39:53","comment_date_gmt":"2022-04-17 10:39:53","comment_content":"Biggest balls in the galaxy.\r\nRespect.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Android 9; Mobile; rv:99.0) Gecko\/99.0 Firefox\/99.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"1206","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"1286"},{"comment_ID":"1269","comment_post_ID":"7158","comment_author":"Saco Wea","comment_author_email":"sacowea@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"141.101.102.210","comment_date":"2022-04-16 17:40:18","comment_date_gmt":"2022-04-16 16:40:18","comment_content":"What about the 36 Marine?","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/100.0.4896.88 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"1269"},{"comment_ID":"1233","comment_post_ID":"7158","comment_author":"David Shiell","comment_author_email":"david_shiell@yahoo.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"172.70.135.71","comment_date":"2022-04-14 21:05:42","comment_date_gmt":"2022-04-14 20:05:42","comment_content":"Mariupol has given Ukraine a new batch of \"cyborgs\" to inspire the nation.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/100.0.4896.88 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"1233"},{"comment_ID":"1224","comment_post_ID":"7158","comment_author":"Jon","comment_author_email":"jon_hallin@hotmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"162.158.222.120","comment_date":"2022-04-14 10:54:56","comment_date_gmt":"2022-04-14 09:54:56","comment_content":"Nowhere close to that, 5000 max.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/99.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"1220","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"1224"},{"comment_ID":"1221","comment_post_ID":"7158","comment_author":"Jerome Rendall","comment_author_email":"info@militaryland.net","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"172.68.50.50","comment_date":"2022-04-14 07:56:16","comment_date_gmt":"2022-04-14 06:56:16","comment_content":"A battalion is about 300 men strong. I don't know how large the police force there is.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/99.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"1219","user_id":"1","pod_item_id":"1221"},{"comment_ID":"1220","comment_post_ID":"7158","comment_author":"Damashii","comment_author_email":"jure.vode@hotmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"172.68.221.50","comment_date":"2022-04-14 07:32:59","comment_date_gmt":"2022-04-14 06:32:59","comment_content":"How many total personal UA forces were deployed in Mariupol? It is true, that estimated figure is around 15000 personal?","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; VOG-L29) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/100.0.4896.79 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"1220"},{"comment_ID":"1219","comment_post_ID":"7158","comment_author":"Hill","comment_author_email":"gherf@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"172.68.133.78","comment_date":"2022-04-14 07:16:38","comment_date_gmt":"2022-04-14 06:16:38","comment_content":"Do we know how many troops were in Mariupol?","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/100.0.4896.88 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"1219"},{"comment_ID":"1206","comment_post_ID":"7158","comment_author":"sagwas","comment_author_email":"sagwas@tutanota.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"141.101.96.161","comment_date":"2022-04-13 22:22:38","comment_date_gmt":"2022-04-13 21:22:38","comment_content":"A hundred years from now, the defenders of Mariupol will be whispering reverentially in Ukrainian schoolyards, glasses will be forever raised at celebrations to these heroes, and all over the world these men and women will be role models where tyranny and bondage are fought. \r\nAn old Croatian's heart bleeds, but he cherishes his Ukrainian brothers with the same heart.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/100.0.4896.81 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"1206"}],"_thumbnail_id":["7178","1","2022-04-13 17:09:44","2022-04-13 16:09:44","","news_mariupol_units","","inherit","open","closed","","news_mariupol_units","","","2022-04-13 17:09:44","2022-04-13 16:09:44","","7158","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/news_mariupol_units.jpg","0","attachment","image\/jpeg","0","7178"],"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":"1055","object_id":"83409","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"3"}],"post_tag":false,"post_format":false,"id":7158}],"unit_equipment_previous":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/18571","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\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/18571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77947,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/18571\/revisions\/77947"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/11765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"unit_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit_tag?post=18571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}