- Service ensign · official · carried by Air Assault Forces
- State affiliation · Ukraine
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: Flag of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces — carried by Air Assault Forces, not issued to this record. The service flag of the Air Assault Forces, in use since 2017 — a maroon field charged with the DShV emblem. 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 Air Assault 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
Airmobile brigade formed in summer 2022 in the Air Assault Forces' wartime expansion; joined the defence of Bakhmut after Soledar fell in January 2023 and has served on the eastern front since.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 3 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Bakhmut from January 2023; the eastern front since, by public reporting. No current disposition is authored.
- Notable history
- One of the brigades the Air Assault Forces raised in summer 2022 as the branch expanded to meet the war — a formation without a pre-war history, built from mobilised personnel around a cadre from the veteran brigades. Its first major commitment was the defence of Bakhmut after the fall of Soledar in January 2023, and it has been on the eastern front since. It represents the wartime half of the branch: the formations that carry the DShV name and standards without the decade of institutional history the original brigades have.
- Strengths
- The branch's selection and training standards applied to a new formation, and a first commitment at the war's hardest battle.
- Limitations
- A short institutional history, a public record thinner than the veteran brigades', and the structural limits of light infantry in this war.
Lineage & institutional history
Related locations
Bakhmut: Publicly documented in the defence of Bakhmut from January 2023.
Quick actions
System access
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Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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