- 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
Air assault brigade from Lviv with a prominent public record from Bakhmut in 2023 and the northern axes; the formation from which the 82nd Brigade was raised in December 2022.
- 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 northern and eastern axes: Bakhmut in 2023 above all. No current disposition is authored.
- Notable history
- The Lviv brigade, one of the DShV's original post-2014 formations with a Donbas record from the 2014–15 battles, was committed in the north in 2022 and in February 2023 entered the battle of Bakhmut, where it fought through the city's fall and on its flanks during the counterattacks that summer. In December 2022 one of its battalion groups became the nucleus of the new 82nd Brigade — the branch's way of growing by division of its veteran formations. Public reporting has since placed it on the northern border sectors and in the east.
- Strengths
- A veteran cadre strong enough to have seeded another brigade, and a public record at the war's most attritional battle.
- Limitations
- Bakhmut cost it heavily and publicly; the structural limits of the branch apply — light protection, employment as line infantry, attrition of the experienced core.
Related locations
Bakhmut: Publicly documented in the battle of Bakhmut from February 2023 and on the Bakhmut flanks during the 2023 counteroffensive.
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Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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