- 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
Kharkiv-region brigade, prominent in the September 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive that it helped spearhead from its home ground; converted from a mechanized to an assault brigade in the later reorganisations and publicly associated with the Kupiansk and border sectors since. No corps assignment is published.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination unknown
- Sources
- 5 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- The Kharkiv-region axes: the 2022 counteroffensive and the Kupiansk and border sectors since. No current disposition is authored.
- Notable history
- A Kharkiv-garrisoned mechanized brigade with a 2014–15 Donbas record, it fought the 2022 defence of its own city and was among the formations that broke the Russian line in the September 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive, the war's fastest advance. In the later reorganisations it was converted into an assault brigade — one of the formations the Ground Forces re-roled toward offensive infantry as the 2023 offensive plan took shape — and has since been publicly associated with the Kupiansk sector and the Kharkiv border, including the 2024 fighting after the Russian Vovchansk offensive.
- Strengths
- Local recruitment and terrain knowledge on its home axis, a documented counteroffensive record, and a command cadre strong enough that public compilation names it as the core of a new corps.
- Limitations
- Sustained border-sector fighting with thinner public reporting after 2023 than in its counteroffensive period; the assault conversion's substance is not published; its corps assignment is not confirmed.
Reported & historical equipment associations
T-64 family: Publicly associated with the T-64BV as a mechanized brigade; the edge records the association and no quantity.
Related locations
Kharkiv: A Kharkiv-based brigade publicly documented in the September 2022 counteroffensive on its home axis.
Campaigns
Campaigns naming this organisation as a participant. The campaign record owns the relationship and grades it; this list is computed.
- The Ukrainian counteroffensives, 2022–2023 Primary force · September 2022 – November 2023 · moderate confidence · as of 2022-09
Associated in open reporting with the Kharkiv axis in September 2022.
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Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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