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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.
According to BBC News and CheckNews, the fact-checking service of Libération, videos released by fighters of the Kraken Regiment, which is associated with the Azov Regiment, who were active in the area show several dozen Russian prisoners, some in their underwear, lined up in front of a ditch and then piled into vehicles; another video shows ...
On 2 July, military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets reported that Ukrainian troops had "completely lost" the Kanal district and claimed that elements of Russia's 98th VDV–including the 217th, 299th, and 331st regiments–had captured the district, possibly with assistance from the 11th VDV and 102nd Motorized Rifle Regiment. Mashovets added ...
Serhiy Olehovich Velichko (Ukr: Сергі́й Оле́гович Вели́чко), nom de guere Chili, is a Ukrainian soldier in the Azov Brigade who fought in the war in Donbas and the Russian invasion of Ukraine as the commander of a reconnaissance battalion in the Kraken Regiment of the Ukrainian Army.
Kraken Regiment (Commander: Konstantin V. Nemichev) [519] Ukrainian Armed Forces ( Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces : General Oleksandr Syrskyi , Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine : Lieutenant General Yevhen Moisiuk ) [ c ]
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 ...
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.
The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Сили спеціальних операцій Збройних сил України,, romanized: Syly spetsialnykh operatsii Zbroinykh syl Ukrainy, abbreviated ССО, SSO) are the special forces of Ukraine and one of the eight branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with headquarters in Kyiv.