- 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
Mechanized brigade raised in 2014 and in near-continuous line service in the Donbas since — Marinka, Avdiivka and the Donetsk-city sectors; reported to have joined the 3rd Army Corps in August 2025.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported · from 2025-08
- Sources
- 4 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- The Donetsk-city sectors since 2014 — Marinka and the Avdiivka approaches most publicly; corps sectors since 2025. No current disposition is authored.
- Notable history
- One of the brigades Ukraine raised in 2014 as the Donbas war outgrew the pre-war army, and one that has barely left that front since: the Marinka and Avdiivka sectors before 2022, and the same Donetsk-city arc through the full-scale war's positional battles. That continuity gives it a knowledge of one stretch of front few formations have, at the cost of the attrition a decade in the line implies. In August 2025 it was reported among the brigades that joined the 3rd Army Corps in the corps reform.
- Strengths
- A decade of positional familiarity on one front and the institutional depth of a brigade older than most of the force.
- Limitations
- The unglamorous long-defence role brings less documentation and less recruitment pull than the assault formations, and a decade of attrition on the war's most static front.
Lineage & institutional history
Under the Ground Forces until the 2025 corps reform; public compilation states the brigade joined the 3rd Army Corps in August 2025, and the corps parent is drawn from that compilation and graded reported because no official order has been read.
Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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