{"id":49729,"date":"2025-05-18T20:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?post_type=unit&#038;p=49729"},"modified":"2026-08-12T18:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:55:13","slug":"21st-army-corps","status":"publish","type":"unit","link":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/21st-army-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"21-\u0439 \u0430\u0440\u043c\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u0440\u043f\u0443\u0441"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column49729_0ec041-5c > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column49729_0ec041-5c > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column49729_0ec041-5c > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column49729_0ec041-5c > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column49729_0ec041-5c > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column49729_0ec041-5c > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column49729_0ec041-5c{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column49729_0ec041-5c > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column49729_0ec041-5c > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column49729_0ec041-5c\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.kb-row-layout-id49729_82f3b6-6d > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id49729_82f3b6-6d > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id49729_82f3b6-6d > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 2fr) minmax(0, 1fr);}.kb-row-layout-id49729_82f3b6-6d > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kb-row-layout-id49729_82f3b6-6d > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 2fr) minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kb-row-layout-id49729_82f3b6-6d > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style><div class=\"kb-row-layout-wrap kb-row-layout-id49729_82f3b6-6d alignnone wp-block-kadence-rowlayout\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-2-columns kt-row-layout-left-golden kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-mobile-layout-row kt-row-valign-top\">\n<style>.kadence-column49729_710b73-d4 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column49729_710b73-d4 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column49729_710b73-d4 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column49729_710b73-d4 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column49729_710b73-d4 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column49729_710b73-d4 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column49729_710b73-d4{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column49729_710b73-d4 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column49729_710b73-d4 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column49729_710b73-d4\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p><strong>21st Army Corps<\/strong> is a combined arms unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The corps was formed in early 2025 under the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. The commander was appointed Oleksiy Abdurakhmanov. In June 2025, Valeriy Kurach was appointed as the unit\u2019s commander, and by late July, it had been transferred to the Ukrainian Ground Forces under Operational Command North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 2025, the legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/93rd-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"15153\">93rd Mechanized Brigade<\/a> had joined the corps alongside the newly formed <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/159th-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"31797\">159th Mechanized Brigade<\/a>. Later, in August 2025, the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/155th-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"31493\">155th Mechanized Brigade<\/a> was assigned under the corps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In late August 2025, the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/4th-heavy-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"11902\">4th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/a>, formerly known as the <strong>4th Tank Brigade,<\/strong> was also assigned to the corps, and later in October 2025, a newly formed brigade, the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/68th-artillery-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"61259\">68th Artillery Brigade<\/a>, would also be assigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At some point, the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/152nd-jaeger-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"24538\">152nd Jaeger Brigade<\/a> had also joined the formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Insignia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The insignia depicts a traditional chevron split in two, with the left side being a subdued pastel blue color, and the right side of the chevron being a subdued shade of green. The central imagery of the insignia shows a stylized cross in yellow pointing in four directions, with an angular crescent shape at the bottom. 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mark.kt-highlight{background-color:unset;font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<li class=\"wp-block-kadence-listitem kt-svg-icon-list-item-wrap kt-svg-icon-list-item-49729_c16b2b-8c\"><span class=\"kb-svg-icon-wrap kb-svg-icon-fas_circle kt-svg-icon-list-single\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\"  fill=\"currentColor\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"  aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M256 8C119 8 8 119 8 256s111 248 248 248 248-111 248-248S393 8 256 8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"kt-svg-icon-list-text\">21st Army Corps<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading49729_75be7e-bc, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading49729_75be7e-bc[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading49729_75be7e-bc\"]{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-xs, 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Multiple sources affiliated to the formation have confirmed its existence to MilitaryLand. The new unit continues the numerical sequence of the corps structure and is designated as the <strong>21st Army Corps<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At this time, no additional details about the formation are available. We will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The 21st Army Corps joins the existing corps formations within the Ukrainian Ground Forces, which currently include the 3rd, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th Army Corps. 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The new formation now has been officially revealed through their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61576057356438\">social media pages<\/a>, confirming our previous report.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:kadence\/advancedheading {\"uniqueID\":\"49963_4177f4-84\",\"markBorder\":\"\",\"markBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}],\"tabletMarkBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}],\"mobileMarkBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}]} -->\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading49963_4177f4-84 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading49963_4177f4-84\">The Insignia<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:kadence\/advancedheading -->\n\n<!-- wp:kadence\/image {\"align\":\"center\",\"id\":49979,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"link\":\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/21st-army-corps\/\",\"linkDestination\":\"custom\",\"uniqueID\":\"49963_c6b91b-74\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image49963_c6b91b-74\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/21st-army-corps\/\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/i_21corps-350x400.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-49979\"\/><\/a><figcaption><em>Emblem of 21st Army Corps, redrawn by davomme<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:kadence\/image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The 21st Army Corps has officially received its insignia, featuring the traditional ground forces chevron outlined in yellow. 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This reform is intended to enhance Ukraine\u2019s tactical and organizational effectiveness by replacing the ad hoc Tactical Groups\u2014previously formed with variable structures\u2014with permanent units that have clearly defined compositions and command hierarchies.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It has been confirmed that the 21st Army Corps, which MilitaryLand <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/new-army-corps-of-the-ground-forces-appeared\/\">first reported on May 18<\/a> and provided <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/21st-army-corps-officially-revealed-to-the-public\/\">additional details about on May 20<\/a>, is part of the Territorial Defense Forces, marking the first corps-level formation within this branch. Previously, there were rumors that at least one corps would be established in the Territorial Defense Forces. This information was verified through the corps\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61576057356438\">official Facebook page<\/a>, which published a photo bearing a watermark reading \u201c21 \u0430\u0440\u043c\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u0440\u043f\u0443\u0441 \u0421\u0438\u043b \u0422\u0440\u041e \u0417\u0421\u0423\u201d (translated as \u201c21st Army Corps of the Territorial Defense Forces\u201d).<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:kadence\/image {\"align\":\"center\",\"id\":53347,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"link\":\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/251311.jpg\",\"linkDestination\":\"media\",\"uniqueID\":\"53318_3b14ab-a0\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image53318_3b14ab-a0\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/251311.jpg\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/251311-1024x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-53347\"\/><\/a><figcaption><em>Strong Ukraine tournament, the key point here is the watermark<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:kadence\/image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We initially believed this might be the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/12th-army-corps\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"38811\">12th Army Corps<\/a>, which commands several Territorial Defense brigades, along with National Guard units and the Presidential Brigade. However, it appears that while the 12th Army Corps does oversee these subordinate units, it remains under the command of the Ground Forces. In contrast, the 21st Army Corps is a dedicated corps-level formation belonging directly to the Territorial Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It remains to be seen which specific units will be subordinated to this corps.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2025-06-18 21:35:18","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-18 19:35:18","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-territorial-defense-corps-revealed","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-09 22:43:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-09 20:43:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=53318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"_thumbnail_id":["53360","1","2025-06-18 21:34:33","2025-06-18 19:34:33","","news_21corps_tdf","","inherit","open","closed","","news_21corps_tdf","","","2025-06-18 21:34:33","2025-06-18 19:34:33","","53318","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/news_21corps_tdf.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","53360"],"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":"1091","object_id":"88557","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":"412","object_id":"88557","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":"308","object_id":"88356","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1142"}],"post_format":false,"id":53318},{"ID":55427,"post_title":"First Details Emerge About the 21st Army Corps","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>MilitaryLand has obtained a gift certificate issued by the command of the newly formed 21st Army Corps of the Territorial Defense Forces. According to the information on the certificate, the formation has been assigned military unit A5160, with Colonel Valeriy Kurach as its commander. Unlike most of the newly established armed corps, which fall under the Operational Commands of the Ground Forces, the 21st Army Corps is under the direct command of the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/territorial-defense-forces\/territorial-defense-command\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"23723\">Territorial Defense Forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:kadence\/image {\"align\":\"center\",\"id\":55490,\"imgMaxWidth\":400,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium_large\",\"link\":\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cert_21corps_2025.jpg\",\"linkDestination\":\"media\",\"uniqueID\":\"55427_f2e487-da\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image55427_f2e487-da\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium_large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cert_21corps_2025.jpg\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cert_21corps_2025-768x1101.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-55490\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:kadence\/image -->\n\n<!-- wp:kadence\/advancedheading {\"uniqueID\":\"55427_487160-6a\",\"markBorder\":\"\",\"markBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}],\"tabletMarkBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}],\"mobileMarkBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}]} -->\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading55427_487160-6a wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading55427_487160-6a\">About the commander<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:kadence\/advancedheading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Colonel Valeriy Kurach was born in 1976. From 2016 to 2019, he served as the commander of the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/air-assault-forces\/79th-airassault-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"14421\">79th Air Assault Brigade<\/a>. After leaving active duty, he remained in reserve until Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022, when he returned to service.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2024, Kurach led the Vuhledar Tactical Group, which was formed from the command staff of the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/air-assault-forces\/7th-air-assault-corps\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"26772\">7th Rapid Response Corps<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1534631557\/posts\/10228019575784763\/\">According to Ukrainian journalist<\/a> Yulia Kerienko-Merinova, he failed to make a timely decision to withdraw troops when the flanks collapsed, which led to the Uspenivka encirclement near Kurakhove and heavy infantry losses. Following extensive media coverage of the incident, Kurach was dismissed from his post in December 2024.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>One officer serving under his command <a href=\"https:\/\/tsn.ua\/ato\/komandi-na-vihid-ne-dayut-zhurnalistka-nazvala-prichini-skladnoyi-situaciyi-pid-kurahovim-2722767.html\">described his<\/a> leadership at headquarters:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>\u201cAll he does is yell like a madman at the brigade commanders, sending assault units to retake lost positions. I\u2019m often at the brigade\u2019s command post, and I constantly hear him insulting brigade commanders and other subordinates. There are plenty of incompetent commanders in the Armed Forces, but Kurach surpasses them all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/blockquote>\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Hopefully, Kurach has learned from his past mistakes and will prove to be an effective commander of the 21st Army Corps.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:kadence\/image {\"align\":\"center\",\"id\":55497,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium_large\",\"link\":\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/commander_kurach.webp\",\"linkDestination\":\"media\",\"uniqueID\":\"55427_01519b-10\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image55427_01519b-10\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium_large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/commander_kurach.webp\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/commander_kurach-768x425.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-55497\"\/><\/a><figcaption><em>Col. Valeriy Kurach<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:kadence\/image -->","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2025-07-06 22:54:18","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-06 20:54:18","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"first-details-about-21st-army-corps","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-09 22:43:10","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-09 20:43:10","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=55427","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"2","comments":[{"comment_ID":"15438","comment_post_ID":"55427","comment_author":"Andrew","comment_author_email":"brokenwagonpublishing@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2602:feb4:308:7400:b50e:1dc:34c8:31f3","comment_date":"2025-07-07 17:49:54","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-07 15:49:54","comment_content":"Ah, so that's the guy responsible for about half a dozen near-encirclements south of Kurakhove.\r\n\r\nYou watch the open source maps evolve over the months, and it's pretty obvious which tactical-operational commands aren't performing. Here's hoping his corps covers quiet fronts.","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":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15438"},{"comment_ID":"15437","comment_post_ID":"55427","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b28:8e00:a807:a832:3506:172","comment_date":"2025-07-07 10:37:56","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-07 08:37:56","comment_content":"Godspeed to Colonel Kurach and especially to his subordinates.","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":"0","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15437"}],"_thumbnail_id":["55504","1","2025-07-06 22:48:23","2025-07-06 20:48:23","","news_21corps_reveal","","inherit","open","closed","","news_21corps_reveal","","","2025-07-06 22:48:23","2025-07-06 20:48:23","","55427","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/news_21corps_reveal.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","55504"],"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":"1091","object_id":"88557","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":"412","object_id":"88557","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":"308","object_id":"88356","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1142"}],"post_format":false,"id":55427},{"ID":57112,"post_title":"21st Corps Transferred to Ground Forces","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It was recently revealed that the 21st Army Corps, which <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/the-territorial-defense-corps-revealed\/\">was formed<\/a> within the Territorial Defense Forces in early 2025, has been transferred to the Ground Forces and is now under the command of Operational Command North. This move was announced through the unit\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61576057356438\">official social<\/a> media pages.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>No official reason for the change has been announced. The 21st Army Corps was the only corps within the Territorial Defense Forces, and this decision now leaves Territorial units without a dedicated army corps formation.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:kadence\/image {\"align\":\"center\",\"id\":57113,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium_large\",\"link\":\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/news_21tro.webp\",\"linkDestination\":\"media\",\"uniqueID\":\"57112_e49408-12\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image57112_e49408-12\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium_large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/news_21tro.webp\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/news_21tro-768x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-57113\"\/><\/a><figcaption><em>21st Army Corps as part of Territorial Defense on July 6<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:kadence\/image -->","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2025-07-20 21:59:57","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-20 19:59:57","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"21st-corps-transferred-to-ground-forces","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-09 22:43:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-09 20:43:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=57112","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"_thumbnail_id":["53360","1","2025-06-18 21:34:33","2025-06-18 19:34:33","","news_21corps_tdf","","inherit","open","closed","","news_21corps_tdf","","","2025-06-18 21:34:33","2025-06-18 19:34:33","","53318","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/news_21corps_tdf.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","53360"],"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":"1091","object_id":"88557","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":"412","object_id":"88557","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":"308","object_id":"88356","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1142"}],"post_format":false,"id":57112},{"ID":58658,"post_title":"Legendary 93rd Brigade joins an army corps","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/93rd-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"15153\">93rd Mechanized Brigade<\/a>\u2014widely regarded as one of the top combat units within Ukraine's Ground Forces\u2014has officially joined the newly established 21st Army Corps, according to announcements from Operational Command North's official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kommander.nord\">social media<\/a> channels. According to MilitaryLand sources, the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/159th-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"31797\">159th Mechanized Brigade<\/a>, one of the newly formed mechanized units, has also been integrated into this corps.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/21st-army-corps\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"49729\">21st Army Corps<\/a> is led by Colonel Valeriy Kurach, who previously commanded Tactical Group Vuhledar in 2024. His leadership during that period drew criticism for failing to order a timely withdrawal after the collapse of the flanks, which led to the encirclement at Uspenivka near Kurakhove and heavy infantry losses. <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/first-details-about-21st-army-corps\/\">MilitaryLand reported<\/a> on his appointment on July 6, citing exclusive access to a gift certificate issued by the unit confirming his new role.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2025-07-31 12:34:22","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-31 10:34:22","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"legendary-93rd-brigade-joins-an-army-corps","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-09 22:42:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-09 20:42:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=58658","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"_thumbnail_id":["58663","1","2025-07-31 11:09:04","2025-07-31 09:09:04","","news_21corps_b","","inherit","open","closed","","news_21corps_b","","","2025-07-31 11:09:04","2025-07-31 09:09:04","","58658","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/news_21corps_b.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","58663"],"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":"1091","object_id":"88557","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":"412","object_id":"88557","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":"308","object_id":"88356","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1142"}],"post_format":false,"id":58658},{"ID":59933,"post_title":"Anne of Kyiv Brigade joins 21st Corps","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On July 31, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/legendary-93rd-brigade-joins-an-army-corps\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"58658\">MilitaryLand reported<\/a> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/93rd-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"15153\">93rd Mechanized Brigade<\/a> and the newly formed <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/159th-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"31797\">159th Mechanized Brigade<\/a> had joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/21st-army-corps\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"49729\">21st Army Corps<\/a> of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It is now confirmed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/155th-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"31493\">155th Mechanized Brigade<\/a>, more widely known by its nickname Anne of Kyiv, has also been assigned to the 21st Army Corps. The corps\u2019 official social media channels announced the transfer earlier today.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Anne of Kyiv brigade has been one of the more high-profile units over the last year. Since its formation, the brigade has faced multiple challenges, beginning with hype and overcoming numerous hardships. This included multiple scandals, an investigation, allegations of misconduct during its first deployment, and a leadership shake-up amidst its poor performance on the battlefield. The brigade is currently deployed to Pokrovsk, where it holds the line on the outskirts of the city.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:html -->\n<div class=\"list-units-pods\">[pods name=\"unit\" orderby=\"ukrainian_short_name.meta_value_num\" where=\" ID IN ('31493')\" template=\"Units List News post\" limit=\"100\"][\/pods]<\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:html -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"3620","post_date":"2025-08-08 14:38:48","post_date_gmt":"2025-08-08 12:38:48","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anne-of-kyiv-brigade-joins-21st-corps","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-09 22:42:35","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-09 20:42:35","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=59933","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"2","comments":[{"comment_ID":"15565","comment_post_ID":"59933","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"86.203.141.34","comment_date":"2025-08-10 20:06:45","comment_date_gmt":"2025-08-10 18:06:45","comment_content":"Here's an informative article mentioning the Anne of Kyiv brigade: https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/ukraine-infantry-crisis-military-army-war\/33497989.html","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":"15565"},{"comment_ID":"15557","comment_post_ID":"59933","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"86.203.141.34","comment_date":"2025-08-10 10:02:27","comment_date_gmt":"2025-08-10 08:02:27","comment_content":"This isn\u2019t about this brigade but may still be of interest: on Aug. 8, General Alexander Lapin was reportedly removed as commander of Russia\u2019s Northern Group of Forces. His tenure has been marked by repeated setbacks, including the 2022 retreat from the Kharkiv region, mismanagement during the Kursk operation, and his failure to capture Vovchansk or establish a strategic buffer zone.","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":"15557"}],"_thumbnail_id":["59934","3620","2025-08-07 23:01:03","2025-08-07 21:01:03","","h_155th_joins_21st","","inherit","open","closed","","h_155th_joins_21st","","","2025-08-07 23:01:03","2025-08-07 21:01:03","","59933","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/h_155th_joins_21st.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","59934"],"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":"1091","object_id":"88557","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":"412","object_id":"88557","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":"308","object_id":"88356","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1142"}],"post_format":false,"id":59933},{"ID":63160,"post_title":"All Heavy Mechanized Units Assigned to Army Corps","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All the remaining heavy mechanized brigades, recently formed on the basis of territorial defense brigades and tank brigades, have been assigned to various army corps formations.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>According to several volunteers closely affiliated with the <strong>125th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/strong>, the unit has been integrated into the <strong>3rd Army Corps<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/125th-brigade-transitions-to-heavy-mechanized-role\/\">As MilitaryLand reported on July 25, 2025<\/a>, the brigade was restructured from the 125th Territorial Defense Brigade into a heavy mechanized formation.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:kadence\/image {\"align\":\"center\",\"id\":63468,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"link\":\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/125heavy_3ak.jpg\",\"linkDestination\":\"media\",\"uniqueID\":\"63160_e68a49-33\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image63160_e68a49-33\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/125heavy_3ak.jpg\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/125heavy_3ak-400x325.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-63468\"\/><\/a><figcaption><em>A post revealing that 125th Brigade is part of 3rd Army Corps<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:kadence\/image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The <strong>129th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/strong> has joined the <strong>15th Army Corps<\/strong>, according to the corps\u2019 official social media. <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/129th-brigade-upgraded-as-heavy-mechanized-unit\/\">As we reported on July 27, 2025<\/a>, the brigade was formed from the 129th Territorial Defense Brigade.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:block {\"ref\":48512} \/-->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The <strong>127th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/strong> is now part of the <strong>11th Army Corps<\/strong>, as revealed today by Defense Minister Denis Shmyhal during a visit to frontline units. The brigade was formed on the basis of the 127th Territorial Defense Brigade, as previously <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/another-light-brigade-becomes-heavy-mechanized\/\">reported on July 25, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>According to our sources, the <strong>1st Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/strong>, a legendary unit, has been assigned to the <strong>18th Army Corps<\/strong>. The brigade was reformed from a tank formation <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/the-legendary-1st-tank-brigade-undergoes-reform\/\">on July 8, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Finally, the <strong>4th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/strong> has been transferred from the <strong>9th Army Corps<\/strong> to the <strong>21st Army Corps<\/strong>. Originally established as a tank brigade, it was later restructured into a heavy mechanized unit, <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/the-final-tank-brigade-is-reformed\/\">as reported by MilitaryLand on August 1, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:kadence\/advancedheading {\"uniqueID\":\"63160_5edc41-71\",\"markBorder\":\"\",\"markBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}],\"tabletMarkBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}],\"mobileMarkBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}]} -->\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading63160_5edc41-71 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading63160_5edc41-71\">Heavy Mechanized Brigades in Army Corps<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:kadence\/advancedheading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It is known that each corps formation within the structure of the Ground Forces will include a dedicated heavy mechanized brigade. Below is the updated overview of army corps with and without an assigned heavy mechanized formation:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>3rd Army Corps - 125th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>9th Army Corps - 5th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>10th Army Corps - 117th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>11th Army Corps - 127th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>12th Army Corps - unknown<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>14th Army Corps - unknown<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>15th Army Corps - 129th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>16th Army Corps - 3rd Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>17th Army Corps - 128th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>18th Army Corps - 1st Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>19th Army Corps - unknown<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>20th Army Corps - 17th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>21st Army Corps - 4th Heavy Mechanized Brigade<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This leaves three army corps currently without a dedicated heavy mechanized brigade. However, as there are no unassigned heavy mechanized units left, the Defense Forces will need to establish three additional brigades to fill these gaps.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Denys_Smyhal\/11138\">Denys Shmyhal<\/a>, official Facebook pages of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/15armycorps\">15th Army Corps<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61576057356438\">21st Army Corps<\/a>, and public social media posts from volunteers anonymized to protect the identity of the original posters, as per our <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/editorial-policy\/\">Editorial Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2025-08-19 20:58:43","post_date_gmt":"2025-08-19 18:58:43","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"all-heavy-mechanized-brigades-assigned-to-army-corps","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-19 21:41:28","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-19 19:41:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=63160","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"2","comments":[{"comment_ID":"15621","comment_post_ID":"63160","comment_author":"Lance allman","comment_author_email":"Showtimela@yahoo.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"47.36.43.117","comment_date":"2025-08-20 16:05:03","comment_date_gmt":"2025-08-20 14:05:03","comment_content":"Whats this. 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The brigade was confirmed to be created on the basis of one of the subordinate units of the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/26th-artillery-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"16637\">26th Artillery Brigade<\/a>, and was forming in the city of Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61581629738924\">official Facebook channel of the brigade<\/a>, the unit has been assigned to the newly formed <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/21st-army-corps\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"49729\">21st Army Corps<\/a> of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, which has been indicated by the changing of the unit's profile picture to the army corps insignia. Initially, it was meant to group several territorial defense brigades and form a dedicated territorial defense corps.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>However, after some time, it was reassigned to its new branch and includes battle-hardened formations such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/4th-heavy-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"11902\">4th Heavy Mechanized<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/93rd-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"15153\">93rd Mechanized Brigades<\/a>. The corps also includes several newly formed units, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/152nd-jaeger-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"24538\">152nd Jaeger<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/155th-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"31493\">155th Mechanized<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/159th-mechanized-brigade\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"31797\">159th Mechanized Brigades<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:html -->\n<div class=\"list-units-pods\">[pods name=\"unit\" orderby=\"ukrainian_short_name.meta_value_num\" where=\" ID IN ('61259')\" template=\"Units List News post\" limit=\"100\"][\/pods]<\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:html -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"3620","post_date":"2025-10-17 12:03:04","post_date_gmt":"2025-10-17 10:03:04","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"68th-artillery-brigade-joins-an-army-corps","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-10-17 13:43:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-10-17 11:43:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=66997","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"_thumbnail_id":["67006","3620","2025-10-11 14:02:31","2025-10-11 12:02:31","","h_68th_arty_corps","48th Artillery Brigade, April 21, 2025, and insignia redrawn by Davomme.","inherit","open","closed","","h_68th_arty_corps","","","2025-10-11 14:03:07","2025-10-11 12:03:07","","66997","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h_68th_arty_corps.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","67006"],"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":"1091","object_id":"88557","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":"412","object_id":"88557","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":"308","object_id":"88356","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1142"},{"term_id":"1158","name":"\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f\u0443\u0441\u0438","slug":"corps","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1158","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"30","object_id":"88557","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1158"},{"term_id":"1143","name":"\u0421\u0443\u0445\u043e\u043f\u0443\u0442\u043d\u0456 \u0432\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0430","slug":"ground-forces","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1143","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"73","object_id":"88356","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1143"},{"term_id":"1152","name":"\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0439 \u043f\u0456\u0434\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0456\u043b","slug":"new-unit","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1152","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"27","object_id":"88557","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1152"},{"term_id":"1157","name":"\u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0430","slug":"ukraine","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1157","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"112","object_id":"88557","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1157"}],"post_format":false,"id":66997},{"ID":68192,"post_title":"COMCORPS: Valeriy Kurach","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The ComCorps article series focuses on the commanders of recently formed army corps formations. Each article profiles the commander of a selected corps. Next in line is the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/21st-army-corps\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"49729\">21st Army Corps<\/a> of the Ground Forces and its commander, Brigadier General Valeriy Kurach. You can read our previous ComCorps article about Major General Dmytro Delyatskyi <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/article\/comcorps-dmytro-delyatskyi\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:kadence\/advancedheading {\"uniqueID\":\"68192_0df918-0a\",\"markBorder\":\"\",\"markBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}],\"tabletMarkBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}],\"mobileMarkBorderStyles\":[{\"top\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"right\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"bottom\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"left\":[null,\"\",\"\"],\"unit\":\"px\"}]} -->\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading68192_0df918-0a wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading68192_0df918-0a\">About the Commander<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:kadence\/advancedheading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Brigadier General Valeriy Kurach was born in 1976. In 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and invaded Donbas, he served as deputy commander of the 79th Air Assault Brigade (79th Airmobile Brigade in 2014). In 2016, he was appointed commander of the brigade. At that time, he was considered one of the most promising commanders, having helped elevate the brigade to a new level. The brigade played a crucial role in the War in Donbas.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:kadence\/image {\"align\":\"center\",\"id\":68227,\"imgMaxWidth\":508,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium_large\",\"link\":\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news_kurach_maksim.webp\",\"linkDestination\":\"media\",\"uniqueID\":\"68192_70f008-20\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image68192_70f008-20\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium_large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news_kurach_maksim.webp\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news_kurach_maksim-768x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-68227\"\/><\/a><figcaption><em>Valeriy Kurach (left) and Maksym Myrhorodsky in Donbas, 2014 <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:kadence\/image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2018, Kurach, along with Naval Forces Commander Ihor Voronchenko, <a href=\"https:\/\/novynarnia.com\/2018\/02\/23\/komandiriv-vmsu-i-79-yi-brigadi-dshv-postavili-na-zahist-mera-truhanova-reaktsiya\/\">sent a letter<\/a> on behalf of their units to the District Court of Kyiv in support of Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov, who had (and still has) Russian citizenship. Just recently, in October 2025, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy stripped Trukhanov of his Ukrainian citizenship and dismissed him from his post.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Kurach resigned from his position following an uproar in the Ukrainian community and entered the reserves.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On February 10, 2022, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/troskhidzsu\/posts\/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE-%D1%83%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F-%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB-%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%97-%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D1%81%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B4-%D0%B7%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%85-%D1%81%D0%B8\/122985716928779\/\">was appointed<\/a> head of the Regional Management of the Eastern Territorial Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2024, Kurach led the Vuhledar Tactical Group, which was formed from the command staff of the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/air-assault-forces\/7th-air-assault-corps\/\">7th Rapid Response Corps<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1534631557\/posts\/10228019575784763\/\">According to Ukrainian journalist<\/a> Yulia Kerienko-Merinova, he failed to make a timely decision to withdraw troops when the flanks collapsed, which led to the Uspenivka encirclement near Kurakhove and heavy infantry losses. Following extensive media coverage of the incident, Kurach was dismissed from his post in December 2024.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>One officer serving under his command <a href=\"https:\/\/tsn.ua\/ato\/komandi-na-vihid-ne-dayut-zhurnalistka-nazvala-prichini-skladnoyi-situaciyi-pid-kurahovim-2722767.html\">described his<\/a> leadership at headquarters:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>\u201cAll he does is yell like a madman at the brigade commanders, sending assault units to retake lost positions. I\u2019m often at the brigade\u2019s command post, and I constantly hear him insulting brigade commanders and other subordinates. There are plenty of incompetent commanders in the Armed Forces, but Kurach surpasses them all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/blockquote>\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On July 6, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/news\/first-details-about-21st-army-corps\/\">MilitaryLand obtained<\/a> a gift certificate revealing exclusively that Valeriy Kurach has been appointed as the commander of 21st Army Corps of the Ground Forces.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2025-10-28 16:59:57","post_date_gmt":"2025-10-28 15:59:57","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"comcorps-valeriy-kurach","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-10-29 19:27:02","post_modified_gmt":"2025-10-29 18:27:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=68192","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"1","comments":[{"comment_ID":"15719","comment_post_ID":"68192","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b39:fb00:b1d8:41c:b373:ca26","comment_date":"2025-10-28 21:18:49","comment_date_gmt":"2025-10-28 20:18:49","comment_content":"Well, from one of the most promising commanders to the one surpassing all others in incompetents, is quite the shift. For the sake of his subordinates, let's hope he is not as incompetent as the quote make it seem.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/141.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15719"}],"_thumbnail_id":["68237","1","2025-10-28 14:55:28","2025-10-28 13:55:28","","news_kurach","Eastern Territorial Defense Forces, 2022","inherit","open","closed","","news_kurach","","","2025-10-28 14:57:51","2025-10-28 13:57:51","","68192","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news_kurach.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","68237"],"category":[{"term_id":"698","name":"\u041f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0456\u043a\u0430\u0446\u0456\u044f","slug":"article","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"698","taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":"0","count":"56","object_id":"87716","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"698"},{"term_id":"1184","name":"\u041b\u044e\u0434\u0438","slug":"people","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1184","taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":"0","count":"20","object_id":"87716","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1184"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":"1178","name":"\u041a\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0438\u0440","slug":"commander","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1178","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"20","object_id":"87092","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1178"},{"term_id":"1158","name":"\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f\u0443\u0441\u0438","slug":"corps","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1158","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"30","object_id":"88557","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1158"},{"term_id":"1143","name":"\u0421\u0443\u0445\u043e\u043f\u0443\u0442\u043d\u0456 \u0432\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0430","slug":"ground-forces","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1143","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"73","object_id":"88356","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1143"},{"term_id":"1157","name":"\u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0430","slug":"ukraine","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1157","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"112","object_id":"88557","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1157"}],"post_format":false,"id":68192},{"ID":86507,"post_title":"433rd Unmanned Systems Battalion Expands","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/433rd-battalion-of-unmanned-systems\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"61941\">433rd Unmanned Systems Battalion<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/21st-army-corps\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"49729\">21st Army Corps<\/a>, under the Ukrainian Ground Forces, has been expanded into the size of a regiment, with the summer reforms continuing to be implemented, including the development of the Army Corps. This news was announced on the Army Corps' official social channels.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The reorganization comes as part of additional organizational measures implemented within <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/operational-command-north\/\" data-type=\"unit\" data-id=\"16972\">Operational Command North<\/a> of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, the overarching body which has jurisdiction over several formations, including <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/21st-army-corps\/\">21st Army Corps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>The decision was made in accordance with a Directive on Additional Organizational Measures within the troops of Operational Command \u201cNorth.\u201d<\/em>, says the statement.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/blockquote>\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>According to the Army Corps, the battalion, despite having been formed only a year ago, has earned a strong reputation while carrying out combat missions in the Siversk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Kursk sectors, in which the Corps has played an extensive role.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The expansion of the battalion meets Ukraine's ongoing defensive needs by scaling up the use of unmanned systems across many units. As part of the transition, the unit has launched a large-scale recruitment campaign for unmanned systems operators. Vacancies are available for those who can operate aerial drones and ground robotics.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"3620","post_date":"2026-07-03 21:38:25","post_date_gmt":"2026-07-03 19:38:25","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"433rd-unmanned-systems-battalion-expands","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-07-03 21:38:25","post_modified_gmt":"2026-07-03 19:38:25","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=86507","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"23","comments":[{"comment_ID":"15925","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.113.227","comment_date":"2026-07-08 14:14:00","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-08 12:14:00","comment_content":"Its roads, rail connections, urban infrastructure, and size provide advantages that a small frontline settlement simply cannot offer. Damage and vulnerability may reduce its usefulness, but they do not erase its strategic value.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15924","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15925"},{"comment_ID":"15924","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.113.227","comment_date":"2026-07-08 14:13:16","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-08 12:13:16","comment_content":"Calling Pokrovsk a logistics hub does not mean Russia can immediately turn it into a massive rear-area supply base with unrestricted rail and truck traffic. It means that controlling a major urban and transportation node improves Russia\u2019s ability to move, stage, and support forces.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15921","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15924"},{"comment_ID":"15923","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.113.227","comment_date":"2026-07-08 14:06:25","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-08 12:06:25","comment_content":"That\u2019s a gross exaggeration. \u201cAll the infrastructure is destroyed\u201d is simply not accurate. Pokrovsk is not comparable to places that have been almost completely levelled, such as Vovchansk. The extent of damage matters, because a city does not need to be untouched to retain value as a transportation and logistics node.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15922","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15923"},{"comment_ID":"15922","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b11:1100:9ad:5467:a76c:25ce","comment_date":"2026-07-08 12:32:01","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-08 10:32:01","comment_content":"All the infrastructure is destroyed. Railways, Warehouses, streets. Russia needs to repair that first and they can only do that if they are not in artillery range.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:152.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/152.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15920","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15922"},{"comment_ID":"15921","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b11:1100:9ad:5467:a76c:25ce","comment_date":"2026-07-08 12:29:58","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-08 10:29:58","comment_content":"No budy, i am talking about scale. Of course russia can use houses in Pokrovsk for those things, i gave examples. But the scale is not what a logistics \"hub\" is. Do you think that every small village near the front with one ammo dump in a basement is a logistics \"hub\"? It does sustain operations, but not at scale. Here you have just some more ammo dumps.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:152.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/152.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15919","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15921"},{"comment_ID":"15920","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.113.182","comment_date":"2026-07-08 12:04:00","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-08 10:04:00","comment_content":"Pokrovsk is also an important transportation node whose capture improves Russia\u2019s ability to move troops and supplies, concentrate forces, and stage further advances.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15919","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15920"},{"comment_ID":"15919","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.113.182","comment_date":"2026-07-08 12:00:25","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-08 10:00:25","comment_content":"You're confusing \"logistics hub\" with \"invulnerable logistics base.\" Capturing Pokrovsk improves Russia's ability to sustain operations, concentrate forces, and support further advances. Whether those activities remain vulnerable to Ukrainian strikes is a separate question.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15917","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15919"},{"comment_ID":"15918","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b11:1100:9ad:5467:a76c:25ce","comment_date":"2026-07-08 11:35:32","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-08 09:35:32","comment_content":"If the russians want to use Pokrovsk as a logistical hub, they need to first push the ukrainians&nbsp;out of artillery and FPV drone range. A hub is a central facility or area where troops, equipment, and supplies are received, stored, and redistributed to the frontline. Pokrovsk is still a frontline city. Yes at some point in a year and a half, russia will be able to use the city as such, maybe.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:152.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/152.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15915","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15918"},{"comment_ID":"15917","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b11:1100:9ad:5467:a76c:25ce","comment_date":"2026-07-08 10:02:09","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-08 08:02:09","comment_content":"They may use houses inside Pokrovsk for some low-level frontline supplies, to accommodate drone teams, mortars and such, but they can not drive truck, after truck full of supplies into the city and store it in big warehouses. it is simply still to close to tthe front.\r\nIf Pokrovsk is a \"logistical hub\" for you, then every small village near the front is one.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:152.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/152.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15915","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15917"},{"comment_ID":"15916","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b11:1100:9ad:5467:a76c:25ce","comment_date":"2026-07-08 09:55:02","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-08 07:55:02","comment_content":"First of all, you did not said it like that. Secondly, they won't be able to use Pokrovsk as a logistical hub, for now, as the same logic applies. The ukrainians&nbsp;are to close to it and can attack large scale russian logistics. They attack logistics in Mariupol and Crimea. What makes you think that Pokrovsk would be safer?","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:152.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/152.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15915","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15916"},{"comment_ID":"15915","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a01:cb1e:1022:ef98:2181:4767:66e9:d111","comment_date":"2026-07-06 23:30:22","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-06 21:30:22","comment_content":"My God, you don't get it at all. What I am saying is that Russia will now be able to use Pokrovsk as a logistical hub, hence the importance of its capture. Period.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15913","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15915"},{"comment_ID":"15914","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b21:3e00:bc32:af7c:6aa0:3fcd","comment_date":"2026-07-06 22:23:08","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-06 20:23:08","comment_content":"Deepstate is close to the ukrainian military and sometimes they don't update the maps for moral, or for OPSEC reasons. Some times for the better, sometimes for worse. In terms of Huliaipolie, i trust ISW a little bit more here, as i haven't seen UKR geolocations from Huliaipolie in a while. Its the same with RU advances, does 2 or 3 guys in a basement constitute controll? I think not.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15911","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15914"},{"comment_ID":"15913","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b21:3e00:bc32:af7c:6aa0:3fcd","comment_date":"2026-07-06 22:10:00","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-06 20:10:00","comment_content":"You can't drive trains and trucks up to the zero line, you get that right? But i guess this is what RU propaganda does to you. Blind to logic. If RU would have taken Pokrovsk two, three days after Avdiivka, yes then they would have taken a major supply hub, but since it took them so long, the big support bases were gone and the supply line were already further back.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15910","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15913"},{"comment_ID":"15912","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b21:3e00:bc32:af7c:6aa0:3fcd","comment_date":"2026-07-06 21:55:50","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-06 19:55:50","comment_content":"You serious? What will happen if UKR starts to unload cargo trains in RU artillery and FPV drone range? They get smashed. No propaganda, just logic. If the enemy gets too close, you have to move your locistics back, otherwise it's vulnerable to attack. Drones amplify this. The moment UKR got HIMARS, RU had to move it's logistics back and UKR had do it too because of RU glidebombs.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15910","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15912"},{"comment_ID":"15911","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.113.0","comment_date":"2026-07-06 10:07:57","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-06 08:07:57","comment_content":"And DeepState did not delay updating the grey zone in Huliaipolie for five months. They changed it to full Russian control only after the last Ukrainian soldiers had been killed or forced to withdraw, which happened in June.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15910","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15911"},{"comment_ID":"15910","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a01:cb1e:1065:7360:cd49:6319:e34d:fb4c","comment_date":"2026-07-05 23:56:04","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-05 21:56:04","comment_content":"It's funny how every logistical hub magically ceases to be one the moment Russia captures it. That's how Ukrainian propaganda works.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15909","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15910"},{"comment_ID":"15909","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b30:9500:6dd:b744:18a0:f63c","comment_date":"2026-07-05 22:48:05","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-05 20:48:05","comment_content":"Only Pokrovsk was a important logistical hub and it lost that role the day it got into artillery range. Myrnograd is just the smaller town next to it and Huliaipole never was a logistical hub, it was 6 km away from the front since 2022. ISW confirmed on 6th of February that Huliaipole fell on a prior date. Deepstate just updated the grey zone, but the battle ended sooner.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15908","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15909"},{"comment_ID":"15908","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.113.18","comment_date":"2026-07-05 18:30:21","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-05 16:30:21","comment_content":"My point was that even in 2026 - which has produced worse overall results for Russia than 2025 - they still managed to capture several important logistical hubs. And, by the way, according to DeepStateMap, Russia had fully captured Huliaipole by 28 June: https:\/\/deepstatemap.live\/en#6\/49.4383200\/32.0526800","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15907","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15908"},{"comment_ID":"15907","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a02:3030:22:f75:6dbb:4aed:c7b0:528a","comment_date":"2026-07-05 17:30:38","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-05 15:30:38","comment_content":"Hulialipole had just 12,786 people. That battle was a quicker, just 3 or 4 months, as ukrainian defences were towards the south but the russians came from the east. An aftereffect of the loss of Vuhledar. Prior to that, the frontline south of the town was stable since 2022. Hulialipole also fell in January, but we were talking about June.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15903","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15907"},{"comment_ID":"15906","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a02:3030:22:f75:6dbb:4aed:c7b0:528a","comment_date":"2026-07-05 17:15:37","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-05 15:15:37","comment_content":"Pokrovsk and Myrnograd are right next to each other. That battle began in July 2024 and lastet for 1 year and 5 or 6 months. Pokrovsk had a pre war population of 60,127. Myrnograd had 46,098. The estimated loses for russia are between 80,000\u2013120,000 total casualties. The battle ended in January, but we were talking about June.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15903","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15906"},{"comment_ID":"15903","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.113.223","comment_date":"2026-07-05 12:27:48","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-05 10:27:48","comment_content":"2026: Pokrovsk, Myrnograd, Hulialipole","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15900","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15903"},{"comment_ID":"15900","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b2f:8a00:caf3:dea9:8817:6ef2","comment_date":"2026-07-04 10:06:15","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-04 08:06:15","comment_content":"Still hyping up tens of thousands of dead for incremental gains?\r\nSince it seems important to you, the reported number is 80.2896 km\u00b2, that is 0.013% of total ukranian territory. The ISW noted that the rate had slowed by at least two-thirds over the prior 18 months, with June 2026 seeing a largely frozen front line except for specific localized gains. June 2026 russian casualties: 39,490.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15899","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15900"},{"comment_ID":"15899","comment_post_ID":"86507","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a01:cb15:590:1f00:c966:e4ac:b0d4:5a60","comment_date":"2026-07-03 23:19:48","comment_date_gmt":"2026-07-03 21:19:48","comment_content":"A quick note to say that in June Russian forces achieved net territorial gains of 84 km\u00b2","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/149.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15899"}],"_thumbnail_id":["86531","3620","2026-06-11 13:41:34","2026-06-11 11:41:34","","496937499_688923880422248_7431208421738030837_n","105th Territorial Defense Brigade, May 2025.","inherit","open","closed","","496937499_688923880422248_7431208421738030837_n","","","2026-06-11 13:41:47","2026-06-11 11:41:47","","86507","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/496937499_688923880422248_7431208421738030837_n.jpg","0","attachment","image\/jpeg","0","86531"],"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":"1091","object_id":"88557","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":"412","object_id":"88557","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"4"}],"post_tag":false,"post_format":false,"id":86507}],"unit_equipment_previous":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/49729","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":8,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/49729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80631,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/49729\/revisions\/80631"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/11750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"unit_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit_tag?post=49729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}