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The 44th Separate Artillery Brigade "Hetman Danylo Apostol" (Ukrainian: 44-та окрема артилерійська бригада імені гетьмана Данила Апостола; 44 ОАБр) is an artillery brigade of the operational command West of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, based in Ternopil.
The 44th Artillery Brigade was created from scratch at Ternopil in September 2014. [7] The 43rd Artillery Brigade was formed in February 2015 in Divychky, a village in Kyiv Oblast. [8] The 27th Reactive Artillery Regiment was upgraded to a brigade on 13 March 2015. [9] The 40th Artillery Brigade was formed at Pervomaisk in August 2015. [10]
37th Communications Regiment (Ukraine) 39th Motorized Infantry Battalion (Ukraine) 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Ukraine) 40th Danylo Nechai Regiment (Ukraine) 43rd Artillery Brigade (Ukraine) 43rd Communications Regiment (Ukraine) 44th Artillery Brigade (Ukraine) 45th Air Assault Brigade (Ukraine) 45th Operational Regiment (Ukraine)
Dwindling ammunition threatens Ukraine’s hold on the 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line under withering assault by Russian artillery. Ukrainian forces withdrew from the city of Avdiivka in ...
43rd Communications Regiment (Ukraine) 43rd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) 44th Artillery Brigade (Ukraine) 44th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) 45th Operational Regiment (Ukraine) 46th Airmobile Brigade (Ukraine) 47th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) 49th Infantry Battalion (Ukraine) 50th Vysochan Regiment (Ukraine) 53rd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
The brigade has been assigned the military number A4723, and at least one battalion is equipped with Polish-donated BMP-1s. [3] It is also receiving the German-made Leopard 1A5. [4] The brigade entered its first combat mission in the Bakhmut area, where on 9 August 2023, the commander of the 3rd Battalion, Major Oleksij Šedul'ko, was killed. [5]
Ukraine's first military reforms began in December 1996, with the adoption of a new "State Program for the Building and Development of the Armed Forces of Ukraine". One aspect of it was to shrink the standard combat unit from division size to brigade size, which would then fall under the command of one of the three newly created military districts:
Before Western artillery systems started being donated in 2022, Ukraine operated an artillery park that mostly consisted of older Soviet-designed equipment. Soviet self-propelled guns in Ukrainian service include the 2S1 Carnation , the 2S3 Acacia , the 2S7 Pion , and the 2S19 Msta-S .