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During the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive, the brigade took part in the Eastern Ukraine campaign in the Donetsk Oblast, Lyman direction. [5] On 11 June 2023 the brigade, alongside several territorial defence battalions , took the village of Blahodatne marking the first settlement to be liberated by Ukrainian forces during the counteroffensive.
Valerii Valeriiovych Dorokhov (Ukrainian: Валерій Валерійович Дорохов, 21 June 1991, Ternopil – 17 April 2023, [2] Donetsk Oblast) was a Ukrainian entrepreneur, serviceman, lieutenant [3] of the 68th Jaeger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war, commander of Oleh Barna. [4]
The 71st Jaeger Brigade was created soon after the launch of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which escalated the Russo-Ukrainian War on 24 February 2022. The word "Jaeger" is German for "hunters", implying forest troops, and the units are neither light nor heavy.
The brigade was reported to be formed in anticipation of a potential Ukrainian counteroffensive in 2024, as well as to bolster Ukrainian defenses in eastern Ukraine to relieve depleted units deployed there. [3] However, reportedly , soldiers from the 152nd Jaeger brigade was broken up and dispatched across the front in Ukraine.
The 2nd Independent Motorized Infantry Battalion was a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.Initially created as the 2nd Ukrainian territorial defense battalion «Horyn» drawn from volunteers from Rivne oblast, the creation of the Battalion was announced in May 2014, following the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War,.
According to David Axe, as of October 2024, the 156th Brigade was one of fourteen 2,000-man brigades that had recently been formed by the Ukrainian Ground Forces.Most of these brigades, including the 156th, were formed as infantry brigades, but by October 2024, Ukrainian officials had announced the 156th would be upgraded to a mechanized brigade.
The unit has formed part of the spearhead on the Velyka Novosilka front alongside the 25th Airborne and 68th Jaeger brigades, as well as two units of Territorial Defense. [6] The offensive has been described as a Thunder Run (referring to a similar strategy used by US personnel in the 2003 Battle of Baghdad) along the Mokri Yaly river.
On 18 July 2024, Russian forces began an offensive with the goal of capturing the strategically important city of Pokrovsk. [1] [2] [3] Pokrovsk serves as an important supply route and as a transportation hub for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.