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In July 2025 the brigade was assigned under the command<\/a> \u0437 17-\u0439 \u0430\u0440\u043c\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u0440\u043f\u0443\u0441<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The brigade has been a protagonist of the battle for Huliapole, key stronghold in the Southern sector of the frontline. In 2026 Col. Dmytro Gerasimenko was replaced by Col. Serhiy Zubenko as commander of the brigade<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 108th Territorial Defense Brigade is a unit of Territorial Defense Forces from Dnipro Oblast. In July 2025 the brigade was assigned under the command of 17th Army Corps. The brigade has been a protagonist of the battle for Huliapole, key stronghold in the Southern sector of the frontline.During local counterattacks conducted by ukranian assault forces…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3112,"featured_media":0,"parent":11759,"menu_order":0,"template":"","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":""},"unit_tag":[],"class_list":["post-26912","unit","type-unit","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Dikobraz","author_link":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/author\/dikobraz\/"},"comment_info":"","related_losses":false,"related_posts":[{"ID":55212,"post_title":"New units of the 17th Army Corps appears","post_content":"\n Just yesterday, we reported<\/a> on the official unveiling of two mechanized brigades and one mountain brigade under the 17th Army Corps (17-\u0439 \u0430\u0440\u043c\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u0440\u043f\u0443\u0441). Today, two more units have been revealed\u2014this time, somewhat unexpectedly, they are both Territorial Defense brigades: the 108th and 241st Territorial Defense Brigades. The information has been published through the official channels<\/a> of 17th Army Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both brigades are currently deployed in Zaporizhia Oblast, alongside the previously announced brigades of the 17th Army Corps. It remains unclear whether these units will eventually be transferred to the Ground Forces or if they are temporarily attached until the corps\u2019 structure is fully established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to our sources, the 422nd Battalion of Unmanned Systems, known as \"Luftwaffe,\" has also been assigned to the 17th Army Corps. The unit is currently operating in the same area.<\/p>\n","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2025-07-05 22:22:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-05 20:22:42","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-units-of-the-17th-army-corps-appears","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-09 22:43:12","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-09 20:43:12","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=55212","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"6","comments":[{"comment_ID":"15436","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Zhorik Vartanov","comment_author_email":"a@b.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"82.118.29.135","comment_date":"2025-07-06 16:28:49","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-06 14:28:49","comment_content":"I'd surmise it's a historical reference to the early Gothic tribes - the first Ukrainians - who were renowned for painting Schwarzkreuze on their legendary flying ponies","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":"15431","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15436"},{"comment_ID":"15435","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Fury","comment_author_email":"lyubomir.riback@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"93.170.117.38","comment_date":"2025-07-06 14:58:10","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-06 12:58:10","comment_content":"Apparently, it was not the 422nd but the 411th Unmanned Systems Regiment that joined the corps.","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":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15435"},{"comment_ID":"15434","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Fury","comment_author_email":"lyubomir.riback@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"93.170.117.38","comment_date":"2025-07-06 14:49:18","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-06 12:49:18","comment_content":"The unit's logo and name echo the modern German Air Force. Quote from the unit commander. \"The creation of the unit's name happened at a time when we dreamed of Germany being more actively involved in helping Ukraine. Part of it was trolling, not the russians, but Germany.\" P.S. Administration please ban this russian bot.","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":"15433","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15434"},{"comment_ID":"15433","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.100.168","comment_date":"2025-07-06 12:05:51","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-06 10:05:51","comment_content":"No one will openly admit they chose names to evoke WWII Germany. But calling a drone unit Luftwaffe, an elite force Edelweiss or Nachtigall, and using Iron Cross-inspired insignia is deliberate historical referencing - hidden behind plausible deniability but designed to influence subconsciously.","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":"15432","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15433"},{"comment_ID":"15432","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b19:8f00:7dc8:8418:862d:f700","comment_date":"2025-07-06 00:06:41","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-05 22:06:41","comment_content":"Well, Luftwaffe is just the german term for Air Force and is used by the modern day german Air Force too. The emblem is the modern day stylised Iron Cross as it is used by the Bundeswehr. So all modern day.\r\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_Air_Force\r\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iron_Cross#\/media\/File:Bundeswehr_Kreuz.svg","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":"15431","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15432"},{"comment_ID":"15431","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.100.110","comment_date":"2025-07-05 23:48:22","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-05 21:48:22","comment_content":"According to our sources, the 422nd Battalion of Unmanned Systems, known as \u201cLuftwaffe,\u201d has also been assigned to the 17th Army Corps. <\/span>\r\nN<\/span>o, it\u2019s not a World War II throwback. Just a quirky name, promise!","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":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15431"}],"_thumbnail_id":["55251","1","2025-07-05 22:21:59","2025-07-05 20:21:59","","news_17corps_2","","inherit","open","closed","","news_17corps_2","","","2025-07-05 22:21:59","2025-07-05 20:21:59","","55212","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/news_17corps_2.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","55251"],"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":"1063","object_id":"86011","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":"392","object_id":"86011","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":"298","object_id":"85879","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1142"}],"post_format":false,"id":55212},{"ID":58784,"post_title":"Reformation of the Territorial Defense Forces","post_content":"\n The Territorial Defense Forces are undergoing a comprehensive restructuring. Separate battalions are being reorganized into linear battalions, streamlining the force and eliminating redundant management and command elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When Territorial Defense Brigades were first established\u2014some as early as 2018\u2014they consisted of separate battalions, unlike the regular brigades of the Ground Forces. This design reflected their original role as a reserve force focused on defending local communities. Each major city raised its own territorial defense battalion, complete with its own base, command staff, and rear support. Brigades served primarily as regional oversight, with one Territorial Defense Brigade assigned to each Ukrainian region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion, some regions created a second brigade to meet increased manpower demands. Parliament later passed legislation allowing Territorial Defense brigades and their battalions to deploy outside their home regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because separate battalions were designed to operate independently, they were frequently attached to regular Ground Forces brigades and rarely deployed to the front as a complete Territorial Defense Brigade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The linearization of Territorial Defense Brigades is intended to simplify their structure and management by removing unnecessary elements. Support units will now be organized at the brigade level, while those at the battalion level will be disbanded. All battalions will be relocated to their brigade\u2019s main base. This process will enable the Defense Forces to create full-fledged brigades capable of deploying as cohesive units with a clear hierarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The change is significant, as dozens of Territorial Defense Brigades exist, and properly reforming every battalion will take time. Below, we provide a list of all known separate units that have been reformed into linear formations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please allow us a few days to update all the information on our site. As you can see, the list is extensive, and several units are still undergoing reorganization. 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Some tried to escape at the checkpoint, but they were surrounded and told they would be going to hold the 225th's line of defense,\"<\/em> an officer from the 108th Brigade told Ukrainska Pravda<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During local counterattacks conducted by ukranian assault forces sent to reinforce the area, servicemen of the brigade witnessed and were forcibly transferred <\/a>\u0434\u043e 225-\u0439 \u0448\u0442\u0443\u0440\u043c\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0439 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043a<\/a>, despite having no assault training.<\/p>\n\n\n\nChanges for better<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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