28th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

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180th Rifle Division (I Formation) (1930s-42) 28th Guards Rifle Division (1942-57) 28th Guards Motor Rifle Division (1957-2001) 28th Mechanized Brigade (c.2001-present)
Active
Country	Ukraine
Branch	Ukrainian Ground Forces
Type	Mechanized Brigade
Part of	6th Army Corps (formerly Soviet 6th Guards Tank Army)
Garrison/HQ	Chornomorske Odessa Oblast^[1] Ukraine
Commanders
Current commander	Colonel Ihor Oliynuk^[2]

The 28th Guards Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the Brigade is the 28th Separate Guards Mechanized Brigade.^[3] (Ukrainian: 28 окрема гвардійська механізована бригада, 28 okrema gvardiyska mehanizovana brugada)

The original 28th Guards Rifle Division was formed during World War II from the 180th Rifle Division in May 1942. The division fought at Kharkov and Iasi. With 37th Army in Bulgaria in May 1945. During the 1980s, the then 28th Guards Motor Rifle Division was part of the 14th Guards Army headquarted at Kishinev, in the Moldovian SSR (Odessa Military District). After the fall of the Soviet Union it became part of the reorganised Ukrainian 6th Army Corps.

28th Mechanized Division (2001)
Parent unit	28th Mechanized Division
Components	28th Separate Mechanized Brigade 27th Separate Mechanized Brigade 1161th Artillery Regiment 40th Separate Signal Battalion