- Service ensign · official · carried by Ground Forces
- State affiliation · Ukraine
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: Ensign of the Ukrainian Ground Forces — carried by Ground Forces, not issued to this record. The service ensign of the Ground Forces. The design itself is excluded from copyright by Article 8 of Ukraine’s Law on Copyright and Related Rights, which names symbols and signs of government authorities, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations. The file shipped is the Wikimedia Commons SVG "Ensign of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.svg", released under PD-UAexMilitary / PD-UA-exempt on that basis, so no attribution or share-alike obligation attaches. Optimised for web display; geometry unaltered.
State affiliation: Ukraine.
The smaller square mark is a Vigil category device, drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role — not an official insignia.
In brief
Long-standing regular mechanized brigade from Yavoriv in the west, named for the medieval king of Galicia; fought in the Donbas from 2014 and through the major positional battles of the full-scale war, most publicly the long defence of Chasiv Yar in 2024. No corps assignment is published.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination unknown
- Sources
- 6 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- The Donbas since 2014; publicly associated with the Bakhmut and Chasiv Yar sectors in the full-scale war. No current disposition is authored.
- Notable history
- One of the regular brigades Ukraine inherited and kept through the lean years, garrisoned at Yavoriv near the Polish border and among the first committed to the Donbas in 2014, where it fought the summer battles around Luhansk and took the losses of that campaign. In the full-scale war it has carried the long-defence assignments: the Bakhmut approaches in 2023 and, through 2024, the defence of Chasiv Yar, the high ground west of Bakhmut whose canal line it held for most of a year under glide bombs and assault — a battle Ukrainian statements and ISW documented week by week.
- Strengths
- Deep institutional experience, a veteran cadre tradition older than most of the force, and a demonstrated capacity for prolonged defence of a single position.
- Limitations
- The unglamorous long-defence role generates less documentation — and less recruitment pull — than the assault formations, and a year at Chasiv Yar carries the attrition that implies; its corps assignment is not published.
Reported & historical equipment associations
T-64 family: Publicly associated with the T-64BV; the edge records the association and no quantity.
Related locations
Chasiv Yar: Publicly documented as the principal formation in the defence of Chasiv Yar through 2024.
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Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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