92nd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 92nd Mechanized Brigade


caption= Sleeve patch for the Brigade
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country= Ukraine
allegiance=
branch= Ukrainian Ground Forces
type= Brigade
role= Mechanized
size=
command_structure= 6th Army Corps (formerly Soviet 6th Guards Tank Army)
current_commander= Colonel Serhiy Guzchenko [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=10175 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ]
garrison=Bashkurivka Chuhuyivskyi Raion Kharkiv Oblast [ [http://kharkivoda.gov.ua/search.php?lang=ru&search_string=%EA%EE%F7%E5%F2%EE%EA Харьковская областная государственная администрация - Поиск ] ] Ukraine
march=
mascot=
battles= World War II
Operation Iraqi Freedom
notable_commanders=
decorations=Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner
anniversaries=

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. [ [http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/4627.html President.Gov.Ua ] ] ( _ua. 92 окрема механізована Ропшинська орденів Жовтневої Революції та Червоного Прапора бригада, "92 okrema mehanizovana Ropshinska oedeniv Zhovtnevoi Revolutsii ta Chervonogo Prapora Brugada")

It was known formerly as 48th Motor Rifle Ropshinska Order of the October Revolution and Order of the Red Banner awards division named after Mikhail Kalinin. It had its name changed circa 2000.

During the 1970s it was stationed in with the Central Group of Forces in Czechoslovakia.

History

2004 Deployment to Iraq

During the October 2003, the 61st Separate Mechanized Battalion was formed. The Battalion was in Iraq from February to September 2004 as a unit of the 6th Mechanized Brigade.

UN peacekeeping missions

101 soldiers from the brigade have taken part in UN peacekeeping missions to Lebanon [ [http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/UN_opens_meeting_on_Lebanon_troops_0820.html The Raw Story | UN opens meeting on Lebanon troops ] ] , Liberia, Sierra Leone, Former Yugoslavia. [ [http://kharkivoda.gov.ua/openwin.php?url=for_press.php?for_press=1225 Харківська обласна державна адміністрація ] ]

Brigade Order of Battle

*91st Engineering Regiment [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=7805 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ]
*1835th Artillery Regiment - Malinovka [ [http://www.soldat.ru/force/ukraine/table.html Вооруженные силы Украины ] ]

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