96th Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade (Ukraine)

96th Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade
96-та зенітна ракетна бригада
Insignia of the Ukrainian 96th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
Active	1992 – present
Country	Ukraine
Allegiance	Ukraine
Branch	Ukrainian Air Force
Type	Missile
Role	Anti-Aircraft
Part of	Air Command Center
Garrison/HQ	Danylivka
Nickname(s)	Kyivska Brigade
Motto(s)	"Sanctified by fire"
Anniversaries	April 25
Equipment	S-300PS and Patriot
Engagements	Russo-Ukrainian war War in Donbas Russian invasion of Ukraine
Decorations	For Courage and Bravery
Commanders
Current commander	Colonel Yaremenko Serhii Volodymyrovych
Insignia
Collar Insignia

The 96th Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade "Kyivska" is a brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force tasked with air defense operations throughout Kyiv Oblast and Chernobyl NPP. It operates S-300PS and Patriot ^[1] missile defense systems. It is headquartered at Danylivka in Kyiv Oblast.

History

In 1992, the 96th Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade of the Soviet Army came under the jurisdiction of Ukraine, becoming a part of the.Ukrainian Air Force.

On 4 December 1998, the brigade was given the honorary name of "Kyivska". ^[2]

The 96th Brigade is normally stationed on the territory of Kyiv Oblast and are tasked with the air defense of Kyiv, the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant, and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. ^[3]

The brigade's equipment and personnel normally take part in the military parade on the Independence Day of Ukraine. ^[4]

On the afternoon of 2 February 2016, while patrolling the territory near Spirne, the personnel of the Brigade noticed movement several hundred meters away, they searched but found no one, while returning they blew up a landmine killing two soldiers of the brigade (Samus Gennadiy Vasyliovych ^[5] and Leonid Eduardovych Kozoroz ^[6] ) and wounding four other soldiers of the brigade.

The brigade engaged Russian troops since 24 February 2022, the day of the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with a soldier of the brigade (Viktor Vyacheslavovych Kuzmin) being killed near Svatove on the day one of the invasion. ^{[7] [8]} On 15 June 2022, the brigade was awarded the honorary award "For Courage and Bravery". ^[9]

On 27 June 2023, the brigade's commander Serhii Volodymyrovych Yaremenko was awarded the "Hero of Ukraine", the highest military award for Ukrainian personnel, ^{[10] [11]} for the brigade's shooting down of 13 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. ^[12]

Structure

The structure of the brigade is as follows: ^[13]

• 9610th Anti-aircraft Missile Divisions Group:
  • 9611th Anti-aircraft Missile Division (Novi Petrivtsi)
  • 9612th Anti-aircraft Missile Division (Danilivka)
  • 9613th Anti-aircraft Missile Division (Pidhirtsi)
• 9620th Anti-aircraft Missile Divisions Group:
  • 9621st Anti-aircraft Missile Division (Revne)
  • 9623rd Anti-aircraft Missile Division (Brovary)

Commanders

• Colonel Abrosimov Pavlo Vasyliovych (1992–1994)
• Colonel Volodymyr Leonidovych Izhutov (1994–1999)
• Colonel Viktor Oleksiyovych Machok (1999–2001)
• Colonel Shamko Vyacheslav Evgenovich (2001–2003) ^[14]
• Colonel Mykola Anatoliyovych Beskutskyi (2003–2006)
• Colonel Serhiy Voznesenskyi (2006–2009)
• Colonel Dobroskok Volodymyr Anatoliyovych (2009–2012)
• Colonel Yuriy Mykolayovych Stavskyi (2012–2016)
• Colonel Vsevolod Georgyovich Bilyk (2016–2019) ^[15]
• Colonel Serhiy Ivanovych Koval (2019–2020)
• Colonel Oleksiy Oleksiyovych Marakhovsky (2020–2022)
• Colonel Yaremenko Serhii Volodymyrovych (2022-) ^[16]

Sources

• Військові частини Повітряних Сил за родами військ Archived 19 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine

References

1. Yanchenko, Volodymyr. "Зеленський присвоїв звання Героя України Сергію Яременку - командиру 96-ї бригади ППО, яка збила 13 "Кинджалів" (in Ukrainian)". Censor.net. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
2. "Про присвоєння почесного найменування "Київська" 96 зенітній ракетній бригаді 49 корпусу Військ Протиповітряної оборони України". 4 December 1998.
3. "Військовослужбовці 96 зенітної ракетної Київської бригади охороняють небо над столицею". 20 February 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
4. "У Києві пройшов військовий парад". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
5. Книга пам'яті
6. Книга пам'яті Archived 27 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
7. Movchan, Angelina (2022-03-13). "Шість Героїв: у різних містах області попрощалися із загиблими військовими". Є! (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
8. Ilkovich, Yuri (2022-03-13). "На Хмельниччині прощались із загиблим підполковником Віктором Кузьміним". News of Khmelnytskyi (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-03-14.
9. "Про відзначення почесною відзнакою "За мужність та відвагу"". 15 June 2022.
10. Valentina Romanenko (2023-06-28). "Зеленський присвоїв звання Героя України командиру зенітників, які збили 13 "Кинджалів"".
11. "Про присвоєння С.Яременку звання Герой України". 27 June 2023.
12. "Zelenskyy awards title of Hero of Ukraine to commander of anti-air defence unit that shot down 13 Kinzhal missiles". Yahoo! News. 28 June 2023.
13. див. 96 ЗРБр на сайті ontology.inhost.com.ua/
14. "96-я зенитная ракетная бригада (в/ч 27309)". Website of veterans 8th Separate Air Defense Army (in Russian). 18 January 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
15. "Електронні декларації чиновників та депутатів. Військова частина А2860". Archived from the original on 25 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
16. Зеленський присвоїв звання Героя України командиру зенітників, які збили 13 "Кинджалів"