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The mechanised infantry brigades, together with the newer motorised, mountain, rifle infantry and assault infantry brigades, constitute the Infantry Corps of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The Armoured Forces also constitute their own corps. Established in 1991, these two corps are the oldest combat arms of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.
When the Ukrainian Ground Forces had been formed on the basis of the Soviet Army in Ukraine in 1991-92, the majority of the new forces involved infantry (motor rifle/mechanized) divisions, a few of these with roots dating back to the Russian Civil War and the Ukrainian War of Independence and majority with Second World War battle honours. What ...
Used by the Ground Forces, Air Assault Forces and National Guard. [113] M-46: 130 mm: 15 [100] D-20 Soviet Union Romania: 152 mm: D-20 M1981 50+ [212] Used by the Ground Forces and Coastal Defence. [212] Romanian M1981 guns also seen in use. [218] 2A36 Giatsint-B Soviet Union: 2A36 Giatsint-B 152 K89 [90] 75+ [212] Used by the Ground Forces and ...
The 157th Separate Mechanized Brigade (Ukrainian: 157 окрема механізована бригада), is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces formed in 2024. [1] It was part of the creation and expansion of nine other brigades in the Ukrainian Ground Forces, announced by its commander Oleksandr Pavliuk , in response to the Russian ...
The 156th Separate Mechanized Brigade (Ukrainian: 156 Окрема механізована бригада), is a brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces formed in 2024. [ 1 ] History
(Reuters) - The commander of Ukraine's ground forces, in an interview published on Friday, said he expected the 26-month-old war against Russia to enter a critical phase in the next two months as ...
It was reported by Forbes that these 10 new brigades would consist of 2,000 people and that some of these new brigades would be infantry, not mechanized brigades. [3] It was stated by Pavluvik, the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, that these new brigades could be stationed around Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, for a potential Russian offensive.
KYIV (Reuters) -NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, on an unannounced visit to Kyiv, said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces were "gradually gaining ground" in their counteroffensive against ...