58th Motorized Brigade

58th Motorized Brigade named after Hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi is a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. created on February 16, 2015 to defend Ukraine. Vyhovskyi’s soldiers passed through the hottest spots during the Anti-Terrorist Operation/Joint Forces Operation in Donbas and Luhansk Oblast: Avdiivka and Yasynuvatskyi district, Tryokhizbenka, Krymske, Zholobok, 29th checkpoint, Novotoshkivka, Toretsk, Pisky, Opytne; Stary Terny, Krasnohorivka, Staromykhaylivka, Hirnyk; Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad, Grodovka, Berdychi, Lastochkine, etc.

On May 6, 2019, on the first celebration of Infantry Day, the 58th Brigade received an honorary name in honor of Hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi (1657-1659), who defeated the Muscovite troops in the Battle of Konotop. On August 24, 2024, the President of Ukraine – Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, presented the commander of the 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade, Colonel Ruslan Shevchuk, the honorary ribbon “For Courage and Bravery”.

At the start of russian full scale invasion of Ukraine in February 24, 2022, the 58th brigade was stationing in Chernihiv oblast and successfully repelled the russian incursions down to Bobrovytsia. Since May 2022, the combat path of the military unit continued in the Bakhmut direction. In December 2022, the brigade came back to defend the northern borders of Ukraine in the Chernihiv region. In February and March of 2023 the brigade fought in the Kupyansk and Lyman front. From September 2023 to October 2024, the brigade defended the south of Donbass.

In 2025, the brigade was assigned to 14th Army Corps and started operating in its area of operation in northen Kharkiv region.
In April, Colonel Ruslan Shevchuk was replaced by Colonel Ivan Shnyr. Shevchuk, a influential Ukrainian military figure, had led the brigade since 2023, and was appointed as commander of 15th Army Corps. Col. Ivan Shnyr previously served as the deputy commander of the 199th Training Center of the Air Assault Forces. By the end of the year, the three separate motorized battalions were reorganized in linear battalion under the command of the brigade, as part of the ongoing restructuring of Ukraine’s Defense Forces. The change has been revealed by recruiting server LobbyX and social media accounts.

In May 2026, the brigade became the center of controversy after the loss of a settlement in Kharkiv Oblast, which led to the suspension of its commander, but drew wider attention due to multiple allegations of corruption, abuse of personnel, and falsified procurement records, all officially denied during ongoing inspections from within the unit.

Insignia

At the center of the sleeve insignia is a gray-steel figure of the Vyhovsky family’s coat of arms, “Abdank under a covering.” The honorary name and the colors of the vertically split shield—blue and red—indicate the unit’s location.