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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.
155 mm Guided Artillery shell Donated by Germany. [245] Vulcano M712 Copperhead United States [246] [247] M982 Excalibur: Excalibur munitions were donated to the armed forces of Ukraine for use in M777 howitzers and AHS Krab following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [248] [249] [250] M31A1: 227 mm Guided artillery rocket
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]
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 ...
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:
From 1991, the Ukrainian Ground Forces bought its military equipment only from Russia and other CIS states, as well as locally producing some of their own equipment. [4] [5] Until 2014 and the start of the war in Donbas, the defence industry in Ukraine produced equipment mostly for export. [24] [4]
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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]