Mechanized Infantry are the basis of the Ukrainian Ground Forces

Ukrainian Ground Forces

The Ukrainian Ground Forces are the land force component of the Military of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Army formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts , that were on Ukrainian soil when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990-92.Between the fall of the USSR and...

. They execute tasks of holding the occupied areas, lines and positions tasks of enemy’s impacts repelling, of penetrating enemy’s defense lines, of defeating the enemy forces, of capturing the important areas, lines and objects, operate in structure of marine and landing troops.

Current Structure

• 24th Mechanized Brigade
  24th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
  style="float: right; clear: right; background-color: transparent"| The 24th Samaro-Ulyanovsk Division was a rifle, then a motor-rifle division of the Red Army of the USSR...
  
  
• 28th Mechanized Brigade
  28th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
  The 28th Guards Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the Brigade is the 28th Separate Guards Mechanized Brigade....
  
  
• 30th Mechanized Brigade
  30th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
  The 30th Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.The full name of the Brigade is 30th Separate Guards Mechanized Novohrad-Volynskyi Rivne Orders of the Red Banner and Suvorov Brigade, .-World War II:...
  
  
• 51st Mechanized Brigade
• 72nd Mechanized Brigade
  72nd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
  The 72nd Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. It was previously named the 29th Rifle Division and then the 72nd Guards Rifle Division of the Soviet Ground Forces.-World War II:...
  
  
• 92nd Mechanized Brigade
  92nd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
  The 92nd Guards Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the Brigade is the 92nd Separate Mechanized Ropshinska Order of the October Revolution and Order of the Red Banner awards Brigade....
  
  
• 93rd Mechanized Brigade
  93rd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
  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....
  
  
• 128th Mechanized Brigade
  128th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
  The 128th Guards Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.Full name of the Brigade is 128th Separate Guards Mechanized Turkestan-Zakarpattia twice Order of Red Banner Brigade, .-History:...
  
  
• 300th Mechanized Regiment
  300th Mechanized Regiment (Ukraine)
  The 300th Guards Mechanized Regiment is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the Brigade is the 300th Separate Guards Mechanized Budapest Regiment.-History:The Regiment was formed as 145th Guards Training Motor-Rifle Budapest Regiment...
  
  

Disbanded Formations

• 15th Mechanized Brigade (17th Guards Motor Rifle Division) - 2004
• 16th Mechanized Brigade (45th Airmobile Brigade) - 2006
• 22nd Mechanized Brigade
  66th Guards Rifle Division
  The 66th Guards Rifle Division was a formation of the Red Army and later of Ukrainian Ground Forces.After October 1999, full name of the Division became 66th Guards Mechanized Bukovyna, Poltava Red Banner Division of the 38th Army Corps of the Western Operational Command of the Armed Forces of...
  
   (66th Mechanized Division)
• 25th Mechanized Brigade
  25th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
  The 25th Rifle Division 'Chapayevskaya was a Russian, and later Soviet, Red Army formation formed during the Russian Civil War. It was named after its civil war commander, Vasily Chapayev...
  
  
• 27th Mechanized Brigade (180th Motor Rifle Division)
• 52nd Mechanized Brigade (254th Motor Rifle Division) - 2004
• 62nd Mechanized Brigade - 2004
• 84th Mechanized Brigade
• 97th Mechanized Brigade
  97th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
  The 97th Mechanized Brigade was a rifle, and then a motor-rifle division of the Soviet Union's Army, before becoming a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Slavuta in western Ukraine....
  
  - 2004
• 161st Mechanized Brigade (161st Motor Rifle Division)
• others