Along with information regarding the disabling of the Army’s 53rd Independent Mechanized Brigade Ukrainea source from DPR added that “According to intelligence, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army is considering disbanding this unit due to large-scale losses.”
The 53rd Independent Mechanized Brigade is a unit of the Operational Command “Vostok/East” of the Ukrainian Army in the Donbass. This unit is usually deployed in the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in the Luhansk region.
The 53rd Brigade was formed in the fall of 2014 in the village of Novaya Lubomirka in the Rivne region on the basis of units transferred from the 17th Tank Brigade and 24th Mechanized Brigade.
By May 2016, the force of the 53rd Brigade was organized into 2 commando battalions including the 24th Ranger Battalion and the 43rd Ranger Mechanized Infantry Battalion.
It is known that each of these battalion consists of 1 reconnaissance platoon, 3 motor vehicle companies, 1 mortar battery, 1 2S1 self-propelled artillery battery, 1 MANPADS platoon (portable anti-tank missile) and 1 platoon. anti-aircraft gun ZU-23-2.
From April to October 2017, units of the brigade fought on the Svetlodarskaya arc in the Donbass before withdrawing to the base in Cherkasskoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region to restore combat capabilities.
In 2019, the units of the brigade returned to the Donbass, taking charge of the section of the line at Gorlovka, Donetsk for a relatively short time.
It is known that units of the 53rd Brigade have been deployed in the Volnovakha area since February 24, and some of the brigade’s soldiers have surrendered before being officially surrounded and removed.
A map released by the Russian Defense Ministry on March 12 shows the advancing directions of the DPR and the Russian Army through Volnovakha.
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