Formation On 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.
Russo-Ukrainian War 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine At 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. The brigade took part in battles for
Kharkiv and
Bakhmut. The brigade had taken part in defensive operations for about four months before participating in
the major Ukrainian offensive in the
Kharkiv Oblast in September 2022. According to Gerasim Gevorgian, commander of the brigade's 120th Battalion, the brigade captured about fifty settlements in total during this offensive. == Structure ==