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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.
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.
Insignia of Ukrainian Guards units. The Armed Forces of Ukraine had a large number of Guards units. [1] On 22 August 2016, with the removal of Soviet distinctions from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Guards titles were removed from the names of the units. [2]
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]
Ukraine's 3rd Separate Spetsnaz Regiment has been responsible for defending the Donetsk International Airport which has faced nearly daily battles since May 2014. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Many special police units were active in responding to the protests of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution including the Tiger and Leopard special forces groups of the ...
The HUR Buildings located on Rybalskyi Peninsula, Kyiv. The agency was established from the existing intelligence assets of the Kyiv, Odesa and Carpathian military districts [2] of the Soviet Armed Forces and its Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the independence of Ukraine.
The post reportedly congratulated the recently reestablished 299th Guards Airborne Regiment on the 80th anniversary of its founding and was signed by Major General "R. Yevkodimov". [ 99 ] A spokesperson for a Ukrainian brigade in Chasiv Yar claimed on 26 June that the Russians were decreasing their usage of armored combat vehicles and tube ...