In 1992, after the
Dissolution of the Soviet union, the
138th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the
8th Tank Army of the
Carpathian Military District took an oath of loyalty to Ukraine becoming the
11th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment.
Russo-Ukrainian war The regiment saw intensive combat during the
War in Donbass. It undertook combat operations in
Volnovakha Raion where a soldier of the Regiment (Valentyn Viktorovych Drachuk) was allegedly captured near
Novotroitske on 30 December 2014 and his dead body was later recovered. The regiment took part in the
Battle of Avdiivka carrying out air defense tasks and on 23 March 2015, during the mortar and tank shelling of Ukrainian positions in
Opytne and
Avdiivka, together with other units, the regiment performed reconnaissance tasks when a tank attacked the regiment's positions killing a soldier of the regiment (Savitsky Yuri Mykolayovych) and wounding another. M of Brigade On 9 January 2017, a soldier of the regiment (Us Serhii Volodymyrovych) was killed in combat in
Donetsk Oblast under undisclosed circumstances. On 1 December 2017, a soldier of the regiment (Oleksandr Yuriyovych Gornyi) was killed in combat in Donetsk Oblast under unknown circumstances. At the start of the
Full scale invasion on February 24 2022, the regiment was deployed to
Nova Kakhovka, and later to
Zaporizhzhia. On February 26 the regiment made its first kill of a
Mi-17 using two missiles. In mid-March 2022, the regiment was deployed to
Izium, Kharkiv region, and on the very first day it shot down a Russian helicopter. In total, the regiment destroyed at least 28 Russian targets: eleven fixed wing aircraft, two helicopters, two cruise missiles and thirteen UAVs. During combat operations near
Balaklia and
Izium, the "
Buk M1" systems destroyed helicopters, two cruise missiles, some planes and UAVs. Once a battery of the regiment was struck by the Russians and was heavily damaged but was restored. During the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, the regiment took part in
Eastern Ukraine campaign and on 24 March 2022, four personnel (Artem Oleksandrovich Slisarchuk, Yuriy Volodymyrovych Kukuev, Volodymyr Serhiyovych Lutsenko and Bohdan Volodymyrovych Demkiv) of the regiment were killed while performing combat operations in
Izium. Artem Oleksandrovich Slisarchuk was later awarded the
Hero of Ukraine, the highest military award for Ukrainian personnel. On 15 June 2022, the regiment was awarded the honorary award "
For Courage and Bravery". On 29 November 2022, a soldier of the regiment (Kononchuk Serhiy Vasyliovych) was killed under undisclosed circumstances. The regiment saw action in
Spirne and on 21 October 2023, a soldier (Dmytro Sergeyevich Murastiy) of the regiment was killed there. ==Structure==