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The Ukrainian Marines have a new brigade - the 124th Territorial Defense Brigade from Kherson has been assigned to the Ukrainian 30th Marine Corps. This change was revealed by Ukrainian volunteers closely associated with the brigade on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to available information, the unit is still designated as the 124th Territorial Defense Brigade, but discussions are underway to transform it into a fully-fledged marine brigade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the second Territorial Defense Brigade to join the Marine Corps. On April 6, 2024, we reported<\/a> on the 126th Territorial Defense Brigade joining the Marines.<\/p>\n","post_excerpt":"Another brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces has joined the Marine Corps.","post_author":"1","post_date":"2024-06-22 22:05:30","post_date_gmt":"2024-06-22 21:05:30","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"124th-territorial-brigade-joins-marines","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-09 22:45:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-09 20:45:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=33124","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"3","comments":[{"comment_ID":"14572","comment_post_ID":"33124","comment_author":"V\u00e1clav Mal\u00fd","comment_author_email":"vaclav.maly12@seznam.cz","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"37.48.33.117","comment_date":"2024-06-27 13:57:49","comment_date_gmt":"2024-06-27 12:57:49","comment_content":"Got it, thank you for clarification","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/126.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"14568","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"14572"},{"comment_ID":"14568","comment_post_ID":"33124","comment_author":"Jerome Rendall","comment_author_email":"info@militaryland.net","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"77.240.187.40","comment_date":"2024-06-26 15:13:20","comment_date_gmt":"2024-06-26 14:13:20","comment_content":"Yes, he got in contact with us. The skull patch isn't the only proof. We have multiple volunteers\/soldiers saying the brigade is under the command of 30th Marine Corps, with one of them also sharing this photo.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:127.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/127.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"14567","user_id":"1","pod_item_id":"14568"},{"comment_ID":"14567","comment_post_ID":"33124","comment_author":"V\u00e1clav Mal\u00fd","comment_author_email":"vaclav.maly12@seznam.cz","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"109.81.120.69","comment_date":"2024-06-26 14:38:00","comment_date_gmt":"2024-06-26 13:38:00","comment_content":"Hello, I just wanted to say that this change might be not be completely sure. Joe Macdonald just made an update saying that they officially know nothing about it and said that the skull patch in the picture is not really anything official. I don't know what is true or not, I just wanted to share what I just found out.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/126.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"14567"}],"_thumbnail_id":["33128","1","2024-06-22 20:24:47","2024-06-22 19:24:47","Marine Corps","news_marinegen","","inherit","open","closed","","news_marinegen","","","2024-06-22 20:51:36","2024-06-22 19:51:36","","33124","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/news_marinegen.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","33128"],"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"},{"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":"381","object_id":"82890","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"4"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":"1142","name":"\u0410\u0440\u043c\u0456\u044f","slug":"army","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1142","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"295","object_id":"82851","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1142"}],"post_format":false,"id":33124},{"ID":4661,"post_title":"Territorial Brigades start its training","post_content":"The 110th Brigade stationed in Zaporizhzhia Region and 124th Brigade stationed in Kherson Region has begun training and will soon be deployed to accomplish necessary tasks. The training is organized with the help of the 55th Artillery Brigade.\n\nEach territorial brigade is 3000 men strong. Each brigade consists of six battalions and several support companies such as enginers, sappers, and mortars.\n\nWe reported about the activation of Territorial defense brigades a few days back. You can read about it here<\/a>.","post_excerpt":"Territorial Defense Brigades of Zaporozia and Kherson began their military training and will soon be deployed to protect important facilities and border.","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-04-10 12:51:49","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-10 11:51:49","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"territorial-brigades-starts-training","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-23 14:10:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-23 13:10:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=4661","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"_thumbnail_id":["4662","1","2021-04-10 12:43:21","2021-04-10 11:43:21","","ukr21_trainingter","","inherit","open","closed","","ukr21_trainingter","","","2021-04-10 12:43:21","2021-04-10 11:43:21","","4661","http:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ukr21_trainingter.jpg","0","attachment","image\/jpeg","0","4662"],"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":4661},{"ID":41599,"post_title":"Another coastal defense brigade has been formed","post_content":"\n On 30 December 2024, we reported<\/a> that the Ukrainian Navy had formed the 40th Coastal Defense Brigade<\/a>; which was allegedly formed based on the existing 150th Mechanized Brigade<\/a> of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. This marked the first creation of a coastal defense brigade since the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, open-source information has shown that another coastal defense unit has appeared - the 34th Coastal Defense Brigade<\/strong>. The unit also appears to have received an insignia, which shows a crab with red eyes alongside the traditional Marine Corps chevron style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It has been reported - although unconfirmed, that the brigade was formed on the basis of the 124th Territorial Defense Brigade<\/a>. We reported<\/a> on 22 June 2024 that the brigade joined the Marine Corps, being the second territorial defense unit to do so. It is expected that the 126th Territorial Defense Brigade<\/a> will also be reformed into a coastal defense brigade in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_excerpt":"A second coastal defense brigade has been established within the Navy's structure.","post_author":"3620","post_date":"2025-01-12 23:36:29","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-12 22:36:29","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"another-coastal-defense-brigade-has-been-formed","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-09 22:44:31","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-09 20:44:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=41599","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"9","comments":[{"comment_ID":"15146","comment_post_ID":"41599","comment_author":"Dobbsie","comment_author_email":"Dobbsie1960@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2607:fb90:8b2e:99ac:25ff:b03d:5ee4:8708","comment_date":"2025-01-14 17:50:54","comment_date_gmt":"2025-01-14 16:50:54","comment_content":"Thanks Jerome. The name's a bit of a red herring, since it sounds like they sit around waiting for an amphibs invasion!","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/131.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36 Edg\/131.0.0.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15144","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15146"},{"comment_ID":"15145","comment_post_ID":"41599","comment_author":"Frank. F","comment_author_email":"celavox.team@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"193.81.227.111","comment_date":"2025-01-13 22:46:31","comment_date_gmt":"2025-01-13 21:46:31","comment_content":"Could they just stay like territorial brigades (just infantry) with little to no armored vehicles?","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit\/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version\/16.6 Safari\/605.1.15","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15144","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15145"},{"comment_ID":"15144","comment_post_ID":"41599","comment_author":"Jerome Rendall","comment_author_email":"info@militaryland.net","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"94.112.33.166","comment_date":"2025-01-13 20:53:01","comment_date_gmt":"2025-01-13 19:53:01","comment_content":"Basically a mix of marine and mechanized brigade.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:134.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/134.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15138","user_id":"1","pod_item_id":"15144"},{"comment_ID":"15143","comment_post_ID":"41599","comment_author":"Jerome Rendall","comment_author_email":"info@militaryland.net","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"94.112.33.166","comment_date":"2025-01-13 20:52:28","comment_date_gmt":"2025-01-13 19:52:28","comment_content":"We are waiting for confirmation.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:134.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/134.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15142","user_id":"1","pod_item_id":"15143"},{"comment_ID":"15142","comment_post_ID":"41599","comment_author":"Vader","comment_author_email":"vadershow20@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"95.109.157.60","comment_date":"2025-01-13 20:36:50","comment_date_gmt":"2025-01-13 19:36:50","comment_content":"According to information on the net, the 126th Territorial Defense Brigade<\/a> (it's mentioned in this article) will be converted to the 39th Coastal Defense Brigade, and it will be the third Coastal Defense Brigade.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/131.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15140","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15142"},{"comment_ID":"15141","comment_post_ID":"41599","comment_author":"retro52","comment_author_email":"antonov.ukraine@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"176.104.7.147","comment_date":"2025-01-13 15:29:40","comment_date_gmt":"2025-01-13 14:29:40","comment_content":"These, essentially, are not new units, just a rebranding of the already existing ones. I suppose they will change the structure to something resembling motorized\/mechanized brigades, maybe with some marine focus aka some river boat units or specialized divers, but the 'core' of the brigade would remain the same.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/131.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15138","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15141"},{"comment_ID":"15140","comment_post_ID":"41599","comment_author":"Frank. F","comment_author_email":"celavox.team@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"193.81.227.111","comment_date":"2025-01-13 11:47:19","comment_date_gmt":"2025-01-13 10:47:19","comment_content":"looks like number 39 was left out, could be the 3rd Coastal Defense Brigade","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit\/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version\/16.6 Safari\/605.1.15","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15140"},{"comment_ID":"15139","comment_post_ID":"41599","comment_author":"John","comment_author_email":"newdimension1331@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2601:18c:8183:be30:d069:2212:5e7a:25ac","comment_date":"2025-01-13 06:44:41","comment_date_gmt":"2025-01-13 05:44:41","comment_content":"Excellent question","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/131.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15138","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15139"},{"comment_ID":"15138","comment_post_ID":"41599","comment_author":"dobbsie","comment_author_email":"dobbsie1960@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2607:fb90:8b2e:99ac:39f7:7fe3:189f:9739","comment_date":"2025-01-13 04:07:59","comment_date_gmt":"2025-01-13 03:07:59","comment_content":"Jerome, what's a coastal defense brigade? And did this happen before the president put a hold on new units until existing units were brought to full strength? \r\n\r\nThanks","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/131.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36 Edg\/131.0.0.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15138"}],"_thumbnail_id":["41601","3620","2025-01-12 23:23:31","2025-01-12 22:23:31","","34th coastal defense thumbnail","","inherit","open","closed","","34th-coastal-defense-thumbnail","","","2025-01-12 23:23:31","2025-01-12 22:23:31","","41599","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/34th-coastal-defense-thumbnail.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","41601"],"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"},{"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":"381","object_id":"82890","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"4"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":"1142","name":"\u0410\u0440\u043c\u0456\u044f","slug":"army","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1142","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"295","object_id":"82851","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1142"}],"post_format":false,"id":41599},{"ID":42344,"post_title":"Official: 124th Brigade becomes 34th Coastal Brigade","post_content":"\n The 124th Territorial Defense Brigade, based in Kherson Oblast, has been officially reformed as the 34th Coastal Defense Brigade, as confirmed by the unit\u2019s official social media accounts<\/a>. MilitaryLand was the first to report<\/a> on the creation of the 34th Coastal Defense Brigade on January 12, 2025. At that time, the unit had already received its new insignia, which was exclusively redrawn for the website by our contributor davomme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 34th Coastal Defense Brigade remains part of the 30th Marine Corps of the Ukrainian Navy and retains its military unit number. The reformation and approval of the new emblem are officially dated February 1, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Official statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Friends, an important moment has come in the life of our brigade. We have walked a long, heroic, and at the same time challenging path. A path that began back in 2020 when the 124th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade was formed. We were formed from motivated volunteers who knew what they were fighting for and did not wait for orders to defend their homeland. Together, we faced the enemy in the first days of the full-scale invasion. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the spring of 2024, our history took a new turn \u2013 we became part of the 30th Marine Corps of Ukraine. And from February 1, 2025, our unit officially acquires a new name and insignia. From now on, we are the 34th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade of the 30th Marine Corps of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","post_excerpt":"The previous details have been now confirmed through the official sources.","post_author":"1","post_date":"2025-02-03 09:46:29","post_date_gmt":"2025-02-03 08:46:29","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"official-124th-brigade-becomes-34th-coastal-brigade","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-03 09:46:32","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-03 08:46:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=42344","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"_thumbnail_id":["41601","3620","2025-01-12 23:23:31","2025-01-12 22:23:31","","34th coastal defense thumbnail","","inherit","open","closed","","34th-coastal-defense-thumbnail","","","2025-01-12 23:23:31","2025-01-12 22:23:31","","41599","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/34th-coastal-defense-thumbnail.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","41601"],"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":42344}],"unit_equipment_previous":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/26910","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\/3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/26910\/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\/41668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"unit_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit_tag?post=26910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/124ter_marines-1024x749.webp\")
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