28th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

28th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 180th Rifle Division (I Formation) (1930s-42)
28th Guards Rifle Division (1942-57)
28th Guards Motor Rifle Division (1957-2001)
28th Mechanized Brigade (c.2001-present)


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country= Ukraine
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branch= Ukrainian Ground Forces
type= Mechanized Brigade
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command_structure= 6th Army Corps (formerly Soviet 6th Guards Tank Army)
current_commander= Colonel Ihor Oliynuk [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=10277 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ]
garrison=Chornomorske Odessa Oblast [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=8512 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ] Ukraine
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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. [ [http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/4627.html President.Gov.Ua ] ] ( _ua. 28 окрема гвардійська механізована бригада, "28 okrema gvardiyska mehanizovana brugada")

The original 28th Guards Rifle Division was formed during World War II from the 180th Rifle Division in May 1942. The division fought at Kharkov and Iasi. With 37th Army in Bulgaria in May 1945. During the 1980s, the then 28th Guards Motor Rifle Division was part of the 14th Guards Army headquarted at Kishinev, in the Moldovian SSR (Odessa Military District). After the fall of the Soviet Union it became part of the reorganised Ukrainian 6th Army Corps.

command structure
name= 28th Mechanized Division
date=2001
parent=28th Mechanized Division
subordinate=28th Separate Mechanized Brigade
27th Separate Mechanized Brigade
1161th Artillery Regiment
40th Separate Signal Battalion

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