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The Kraken Regiment (Ukrainian: Спецпідрозділ "Kraken", romanized: Spetspidrozdil "Kraken") is a Ukrainian military volunteer unit, part of the spetsnaz units of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR) [3] formed in 2022 as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Oleksandr Ivanovych Zakolodny (April 8, 1987 - January 21, 2023) was a Ukrainian mountaineer; a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who served the Kraken Regiment, a special volunteer unit of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR) in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
The torture of Russian soldiers in Mala Rohan was an incident during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine that occurred in the village of Mala Rohan.As documented by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot the legs of three captured Russian soldiers and tortured Russian soldiers who were wounded. [1]
Velichko was born on January 3, 1994, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. [1] [2] He participated in Euromaidan, defending the protesters from titushky and Yanukovych's Berkut police.Members of the National Corps attribute Velichko as the author of the saying "Putin khuylo!", which gained popularity after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
[19] [44] On 1 March, Yevlash claimed that the Russian military had accumulated a large force near Chasiv Yar, had launched a "powerful thrust" toward the city, and was attempting to break through weak spots in the city's defenses. [45] On 23 March, the Russian Army claimed to have captured the village of Ivanivske, located southeast of Chasiv ...
By December 30, the brigade along with the Kraken Regiment after months of fighting, retook the village of Novoselivske 18 km northwest of Svatove in the Luhansk Oblast with numerous Russian captives. [27] The brigade was reflagged as an assault infantry formation in 2023. [citation needed]
The 8th Spetsnaz Regiment, war in Donbas, March 2015. Due to the corruption of the Ministry of Interior many Spetsnaz units and commanders were sacked, Berkut being the most notable. However, Russian Spetsnaz units soon recruited many of the released members.
Troops of the 8th Spetsnaz Regiment in Donbas, March 2015 At the beginning of the Crimea Crisis and the war in Donbas , Ukraine's parliament stated that their forces only had 6,000 combat-ready infantrymen, compared with approximately 20,000 troops stationed at Russian bases in Crimea alone.