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insignia of the newly formed brigade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","post_excerpt":"All branches of the army continue to expand, including the engineering forces.","post_author":"1","post_date":"2024-06-08 21:12:00","post_date_gmt":"2024-06-08 20:12:00","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"assault-engineering-brigade-formed-in-the-army","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-09 22:45:26","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-09 20:45:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=32372","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"5","comments":[{"comment_ID":"14544","comment_post_ID":"32372","comment_author":"Kharus","comment_author_email":"dorus13@outlook.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"194.104.22.213","comment_date":"2024-06-10 18:31:52","comment_date_gmt":"2024-06-10 17:31:52","comment_content":"Seems to be the reincarnation of the WW2 Soviet idea of assault engineering brigades: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assault_Engineering_Brigades.\r\nMy understanding is that the brigade will consist from 3-4 battalions of light infantry skilled in fortifications, mining and demining, with little to no artillery and armored units.\r\nProbably, Ukraine gets ready for a large-scale offensive in 2025.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; 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