93rd Guards Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

93rd Mechanized Brigade

Sleeve patch for the 93rd Mechanized Brigade
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) (removed)
 Order of Suvorov (removed)

 Order of Kutuzov (removed)
Battle honours Kharkiv
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]

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Southern Group of Forces in Hungary during the last years of the Cold War,[4] and after the fall of the Berlin Wall was withdrawn to Ukraine from October 1990 to January 1991.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] On 18 November 2015 its honorifics "Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov" were removed as part of an Armed Forces-wide removal of Soviet awards and honorifics, but not its Kharkiv battle honor,[8]given as a result of its participation in the 1943 Belgorod-Khar'kov Offensive Operation.

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 held as prisoners of war.[9]

The brigade returned to the frontline. On 19 July an IFV of the brigade detonated an IED, killing two soldiers.[10]

Brigade Order of Battle

1997

2007

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Новини Управління Прес-служби МО
  2. ↑ President.Gov.Ua> Archived August 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Poirer and Connor, Red Army Order of Battle
  4. ↑ Michael Holm/V.I.Feskov et al., 93rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division, 2015.
  5. ↑ Globalsecurity.org, Ukrainian National Guard
  6. ↑ "Полоненого "кіборга" побили "мирні" жителі Донецька" [Cyborg brigades beat "peaceful" Donetsk inhabitants]. Ukrainian National Information Agency News (UNN). All online daily news in Ukraine today - fresh, recent, major. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
  7. ↑ Barnes, Julian E. "Kiev's Calls for Restraint Frustrate Ukraine's Front-Line Fighters". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on 22 February 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  8. ↑ "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №646/2015" [Ukaz President of Ukraine No. 646/2015] (in Ukrainian). President of Ukraine. 21 November 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "Ukrainian infantry brigade returns home after nearly two years on the frontline". Ukraine Today. Retrieved 2016-06-26.
  10. ↑ "Donbas death toll rises: Ukraine reports 7 KIA, 14 WIA in 24 hours". UNIAN. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  11. ↑ Новини Управління Прес-служби МО
  12. ↑ Новини Управління Прес-служби МО
  13. ↑ Новини Управління Прес-служби МО
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