5th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
The 5th Mechanized Brigade was a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces sent to Iraq in August 2003. Brigade was deployed from 17 August 2003 to March 2004.
Mission objectives
- Maintain stability and safety in Wasit Governorate
- Reconnaissance and destruction of terrorist and organized crime groups, detainment and court judgment of military criminals
- Provide support for Coalition Provisional Authority in reconstruction of civil departments
- Provide help with development of judicial system, which supports the rights of all Iraqi residents, and provides inner security
- Provide support together with other organizations in rebuilding of schooling, medical, electrical and water systems, industrial complexes, creation of new work places
- Form and train a battalion of Iraqi Civil Defense Corps
- Form and train 3 battalions for the Department of Border enforcement (DBE)
Operations
- Operation Chamberlain
Brigade Order of Battle
- 51st Mechanized Battalion
- 52nd Mechanized Battalion
- 19th Specialized Battalion
Casualties
- Sgt. Yuriy Koydan – Died of injuries suffered when his BRDM-2 armored reconnaissance vehicle overturned while patrolling an air base near Al Kūt in southern Iraq on 30 September 2003
- Private Sergiy Suslov – Died from a non-combat related injury.
- Captain Oleksii Bondarenko – Committed suicide by shooting himself in Al Kūt, Iraq, on 19 November 2003