Stuhna Battalion


The Stuhna Battalion is a Ukrainian Battalion level military unit, part of the spetsnaz units of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine formed in March 2022 as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and has taken part in multiple combat operations throughout the Russo-Ukrainian War.

History

It was established on 16 March 2022 from volunteers. It is named after Stuhna, a tributary of the Dnieper which flows in the Obukhiv Raion. The battalion was established on the basis of the 135th Territorial Defense Battalion of the 114th Territorial Defense Brigade. The battalion personnel first saw combat during the Battle of Hostomel and the Battle of Antonov Airport where they, together with other units successfully ambush a column of Russian paratroopers near the glass factory in Hostomel.
In May 2022, the battalion fought in the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive in the villages of Dementiivka, Velyki Prokhody and Pitomnyk. In October 2022, personnel of the Stuhna battalion with support from the Transcarpathian "Sonechko" volunteer battalion shot down a Russian military aircraft with a Stinger missile. A soldier of the unit, Mykhailo Matviyiv died on 18 August 2022 during a battle in Maksymivka, Mykolaiv Oblast and another soldier, Artem Medvedev died on 21 August 2022 while fighting in the Donetsk Oblast. In January 2023, the Stuhna unit, together with other units of the HUR, landed on the left bank of the Dnieper near Nova Kakhovka. The unit destroyed a company command post and killed several dozen Russian soldiers.
In March 2023, fighters of the Stuhna unit, using a Falcon Avanger kamikaze drone, destroyed the Russian Murom-M visual surveillance complex on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station in the Kherson Oblast. In April 2023, the battalion took part in the Battle of Bakhmut and maintained positions in the village of Khromove to guard roads used by Ukrainian troops.
In July 2023, Mykyta Krasnovid was killed in a battle in southern Ukraine. Irish volunteer Robert Deegan was killed in action on 19 September 2024, during the Battle of Vovchansk Aggregate Plant on 24 September 2024, the Stuhna battalion together with Paragon, Junger, BDK, RDK and Terror conducted a successful operation to liberate the Vovchansk Aggregate Plant.

Commanders

  • Linko Dmytro Volodymyrovych