UKRAINE - ARMY 1st Tank Brigade

  Russo-Ukrainian War In January 2015, elements of the brigade were reported to have participated in the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport to attempt a breakthrough. Then on 18 November 2015, the Soviet decorations included in the brigade's full name (1st Separate Guards Tank Novohrad Orders of the Red Banner, Kutuzov, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Alexander Nevsky and Red Star Brigade, (Ukrainian: 1-а окрема гвардійська танкова Новгородська орденів Червоного Прапора, Кутузова, Богдана Хмельницького, Олександра Невського і Червоної Зірки бригада)[6] were removed under Ukrainian decommunization law, leaving the name to be 1st Guards Tank Brigade (Ukrainian: 1-ша окрема гвардійська танкова бригада).[7] Furthermore, on 22 August 2016, its Guards title was also removed.[8] It was granted the Siverska honorific on 24 August 2017. As of April 2021, the brigade was seen fighting in Donbas until Russia began massing troops along Ukraine's border, moving back to its original garrison outside of Kyiv. At t