Batkivshchyna Battalion

34th Territorial Defense Battalion
Ukrainian: 34-й батальйон територіальної оборони
Unit insignia
Active2014 - present
Country Ukraine
AllegianceMinistry of Defense
TypeBattalion of Territorial Defense (BTD)

The 34th Territorial Defense Battalion, is a Territorial Defense Battalion of Ukraine formed from volunteers of the "Resistance movement" (70%) and based in Kirovohrad Oblast and it is currently fighting in the war in Donbas.[1] The unit was formed in June 2014 as part of the parties "Resistance movement" that it created because it felt Russia threatened Ukraine.[2]

The battalion (claims to) have its own military intelligence and special operations forces.[3]

On 1 August 2014, the battalion claimed it had destroyed the Luhansk People's Republic's Prizrak Battalion;[4] this claim was false, and the Prizrak Battalion later participated in the Battle of Debaltseve.[5]

It is fighting as part of the 57th Brigade in Bakhmut during the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

See also

References

  1. ^ (in Ukrainian) Promised REMEDIES TRANSFORMATION 34 BATTALION territorial defense, Kirovohrad Oblast Council (26 July 2014)
  2. ^ (in Ukrainian) Militants received humanitarian aid from Russia, LB (2 August 2014)
  3. ^ (in Ukrainian) Battalion "Fatherland" said to have killed the leader of the terrorists Lyeshoho, LB (1 August 2014)
  4. ^ The Ukrainian security officers struck blow to a battalion of terrorists "Ghost" and hard wounded his leader Leshego, Crime NO (1 August 2014)
  5. ^ "Alexei Mozgovoi's "Ghost" brigade in the Debaltsevo operation". Life News. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.