- Service ensign · official · carried by Marine Corps
- State affiliation · Ukraine
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: Flag of the Ukrainian Naval Infantry — carried by Marine Corps, not issued to this record. The service flag of the Naval Infantry (Marine Corps). 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 "Flag of the Ukrainian Naval Infantry.svg", released under 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
Marine brigade with long service on the southern front — the 2023 southern offensive, where it took Urozhaine with the 38th, and the Dnipro left-bank operation at Krynky from October 2023 to the withdrawal in 2024.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 4 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- The southern front: the Velyka Novosilka axis in the 2023 offensive and the lower Dnipro at Krynky in 2023–24. No current disposition is authored.
- Notable history
- A marine brigade of the post-2014 expansion with a Donbas record, it fought the 2023 southern offensive on the Velyka Novosilka axis, where with the 38th it took Urozhaine in August, and then the operation that defined the Marine Corps' war: the crossing to the Dnipro's left bank at Krynky from October 2023, held through the winter under fire and drone observation and given up in 2024. Ukrainian investigative reporting later reconstructed the operation's chaos and cost from its participants — a rare public account of a Ukrainian operation from the inside.
- Strengths
- Experience in the war's hardest river-crossing operation and the cohesion of a brigade that held a bridgehead for months.
- Limitations
- Krynky consumed it heavily and publicly; like all marine formations in this war it fights as line infantry, and its amphibious role is aspirational.
Related locations
Kherson: Publicly documented in the Dnipro left-bank bridgehead operation at Krynky, Kherson oblast, 2023–24.
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Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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