28th Mechanized Brigade
Ukrainian mechanized infantry brigade
The 28th Mechanized Brigade (Ukrainian: 28-ма окрема механізо́вана брига́да імені Лицарів Зимового Походу) is a mechanized brigade and part of the formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.
History
The original 28th Guards Rifle Division was formed during the Second World War from the 180th Rifle Division in May 1942. The division fought at Kharkiv and Iași. It was with the 37th Army in Bulgaria in May 1945. During the 1980s, the then 28th Guards Motor Rifle Division was part of the 14th Guards Army headquartered at Chișinău, in the Moldavian SSR (Odesa Military District). After the fall of the Soviet Union it became part of the reorganised Ukrainian 6th Army Corps.
The current brigade was established in 1998 on the base of the 89th Guards Rifle Regiment of the Soviet Army. That unit in its turn traced its roots from the 21st Rifle Regiment of the Red Army, which was formed in 1940 from veterans of Estonian Land Forces following the that country's annexation by the Soviet Union. The regiment took part in the battles for Kharkiv, and following World War II was based in Chornomorske near Odesa, becoming part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 1992.
After the 6th Army Corps was disbanded in 2013, the brigade became part of Operational Command South.
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