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Stuhna Battalion | |
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Батальйон «Стугна» | |
![]() Stuhna Battalion's insignia | |
Founded | 2022 |
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Type | Spetsnaz |
Role | Reconnaissance, counteroffensive and sabotage |
Part of | Tymur Special Operations Detachment |
Motto(s) | In hoc signo vinces |
Engagements |
The Stuhna Battalion is a Ukrainian Battalion level military unit, part of the spetsnaz units of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine formed in March 2022 as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and has taken part in multiple combat operations throughout the Russo-Ukrainian War.
It was established on 16 March 2022 from volunteers. [1] It is named after Stuhna, a tributary of the Dnieper which flows in the Obukhiv Raion. The battalion was established on the basis of the 135th Territorial Defense Battalion of the 114th Territorial Defense Brigade. [2] [3] [4] The battalion personnel first saw combat during the Battle of Hostomel and the Battle of Antonov Airport where they, together with other units successfully ambush a column of Russian paratroopers near the glass factory in Hostomel. [5]
In May 2022, the battalion fought in the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive in the villages of Dementiivka, Velyki Prokhody and Pitomnyk. [1] In October 2022, personnel of the Stuhna battalion with support from the Transcarpathian "Sonechko" volunteer battalion shot down a Russian military aircraft with a Stinger missile. [6] [7] [8] A soldier of the unit, Mykhailo Matviyiv died on 18 August 2022 during a battle in Maksymivka, Mykolaiv Oblast [9] [10] [11] and another soldier, Artem Medvedev died on 21 August 2022 while fighting in the Donetsk Oblast. [11] [12] [13] In January 2023, the Stuhna unit, together with other units of the HUR, landed on the left bank of the Dnieper near Nova Kakhovka. The unit destroyed a company command post and killed several dozen Russian soldiers. [14]
In March 2023, fighters of the Stuhna unit, using a Falcon Avanger kamikaze drone, destroyed the Russian Murom-M visual surveillance complex on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station in the Kherson Oblast. [15] [16] [17] [18] In April 2023, the battalion took part in the Battle of Bakhmut and maintained positions in the village of Khromove to guard roads used by Ukrainian troops. [19] [20]
In July 2023, Mykyta Krasnovid was killed in a battle in southern Ukraine. [11] [21] Irish volunteer Robert Deegan was killed in action on 19 September 2024, during the Battle of Vovchansk Aggregate Plant [22] on 24 September 2024, the Stuhna battalion together with Paragon, Junger, BDK, RDK and Terror conducted a successful operation to liberate the Vovchansk Aggregate Plant. [23] [24]