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113th Territorial Defense Brigade (Ukraine)
The 113th Independent Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces (Ukrainian: 113-та окрема бригада територіальної оборони) is a military formation of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv Oblast. It is part of Operational Command East. HistoryFormationOn 28 August 2018, the brigade was formed in Kharkiv Oblast. In first days brigade numbered twenty-seven people. Ten were assigned to headquarters and two in each of the five battalions. For the next ten days close to twenty-one hundred reservists and three hundred officers foot part in exercises culminating with close to thirty percent of them signing contracts with the brigade. Colonel Ihor Kiforenko became the first commander.[1][2] Russo-Ukrainian War2022 Russian invasion of UkraineAt the end of January 2022 the brigade had six battalions, 120-125 requiring less than ten percent to be fully manned. A new law that took effect on 1 January allowed for two more battalions with one of them located in Kharkiv.[3] The brigade took part in battles for Kharkiv and Bakhmut.[4] On 10 September 2022, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the 113th Territorial Defense Brigade was responsible for capturing the villages of Vasylenkove and Artemivka during a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Kharkiv Oblast.[5] According to Gerasim Gevorgian, commander of the brigade's 120th Battalion, the brigade captured about fifty settlements in total during this offensive.[4] The Chuhuiv Battalion of the 113rd Brigade was involved in the counteroffensive, taking part in combat near Vasylenkove, and advancing for five days until reaching the Russia-Ukraine border near Vovchansk. Many members of the battalion were locals and had relatives living in the areas which they recaptured.[6] StructureAs of 2022 the brigade's structure is as follows:[7]
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