93rd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
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| File:93-я механізована бригада.png
Sleeve patch for the 93rd Mechanized Brigade
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| Active | 2000s(?) |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Branch | Ukrainian Ground Forces |
| Type | Mechanized Brigade |
| Part of | 6th Army Corps |
| Garrison/HQ | Cherkaske Dnipropetrovsk Oblast[1] Ukraine |
| Engagements | War in Donbas |
| Decorations | Order of the Red Banner(2) Order of Suvorov Order of Kutuzov |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander |
Colonel Vladislav Klochkov |
The 93rd Guards Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the Brigade is the 93rd Separate Guards Mechanized Kharkiv twice Order of the Red Banner, Suvorov's and Kutuzov's awards Brigade.[2]
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History
The Brigade traces its history back to the 93rd Guards Rifle Division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed at Valuki in April 1943 from 13th Guards and 92nd Rifle Brigades. The Division fought at Kursk, Kharkov, Budapest, and Prague, and was serving with the 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in May 1945.[3] After a period as a 35th Guards Mechanized Division, and then 35th Guards Motor Rifle Division 1957-65, the Division was redesignated as the 93rd Guards Motor Rifle Division in 1965. It served with the Southern Group of Forces in Hungary during the last years of the Cold War,[4] and after the fall of the Berlin Wall was withdrawn to Ukraine from October 1990 to January 1991.
There it became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In Decree 925/96(?), Colonel Anatoly Savatiovich Pushnyakov, Commander of the 93rd Mechanised Division of the 6th Army Corps, Southern Operational Command, Ukrainian Ground Forces, was promoted to General-Major.
The division appears to have been redesignated a brigade after 1996 and after 1999.
Throughout 1999, the '93rd Motor Rifle Division' conducted a series of small unit and staff officer exchanges with the 40th Infantry Division of the California Army National Guard.[5]
On December 10, 2007 the Brigade received its Colour by the order of the President of Ukraine.
The brigade fought in the War in Donbass, defending Donetsk International Airport during the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport alongside the 95th Airmobile Brigade.[6]
The brigade is currently based in Krasnoarmiisk.[7]
The Donbas War
The brigade was deployed in the War in Donbas against the Russian army and its proxy forces. The unit fought on the frontlines from 2014-2016 before being recalled in March 2016. During this period, 138 soldiers were killed in action, over 1,000 were wounded, and 9 soldiers were kept as prisoners of war.[8]
Brigade Order of Battle
1997
- 25px Division Command and Staff
- 25px Guards Company
- 25px 110th Mechanized Regiment
- 25px 529th Mechanized Regiment
- 25px 87th Armoured Regiment
- 25px Command and Artillery Reconnaissance Company
- 25px 198th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
- 25px 446th Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion
- 25px 1039th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
- 25px 108th Combat Engineer Battalion
- 25px 166th Signal Battalion
- 25px 1119th Logistics Battalion
- 25px 16th Reconnaissance Battalion
- 25px 35th Electronic Warfare Company
- 25px 73rd Repair and Recovery Battalion
- 25px 89th Medical Battalion
- 25px 133rd Chemical Battalion
- 25px 16th Training Area[9]
- 25px Military Band
2007
- 1st Mechanized Battalion[10]
Awards
- 19?? received the Guards designation.
- 19?? received the Order of the Red Banner
- 19?? received the honorable name «Kharkiv»
- 19?? received the Order of Suvorov
- 19?? received the Order of Kutuzov
- On December 10, 2007 received its Colour[11]
References
- ↑ Новини Управління Прес-служби МО
- ↑ President.Gov.Ua>
- ↑ Poirer and Connor, Red Army Order of Battle
- ↑ Michael Holm/V.I.Feskov et al., 93rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division, 2015.
- ↑ Globalsecurity.org, Ukrainian National Guard
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- ↑ http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukrainian-infantry-brigade-returns-home-after-nearly-two-years-on-the-frontline-610062.html
- ↑ Новини Управління Прес-служби МО
- ↑ Новини Управління Прес-служби МО
- ↑ Новини Управління Прес-служби МО
