19th Missile Brigade (Ukraine)

Ukrainian Ground Forces unit

19th Missile Brigade "Saint Barbara"

Active	1999 – present
Country
Branch	Ukrainian Ground Forces
Type	Artillery
Size	Brigade
Garrison/HQ	Khmelnytskyi
Engagements	Russo-Ukrainian War War in Donbas 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Southern Ukraine campaign Berdiansk port attack
Commanders
Current commander	Colonel Yaroshevych Fedir Serhiiovych

Military unit

The 19th Missile Brigade "Saint Barbara"^[1] is an artillery formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Khmelnytskyi. The brigade is directly subordinated to the Ground Forces Command.

Structure

As of 2023 the brigade's structure is as follows:^[2]

19th Missile Brigade "Saint Barbara", Khmelnytskyi
- Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
- Target Acquisition Battery
- 1st Field Artillery (TBM/MLRS) Battalion (OTR-21 Tochka-U, BM-30 Smerch)
- 2nd Field Artillery (TBM) Battalion (OTR-21 Tochka-U)
- 3rd Field Artillery (TBM) Battalion (OTR-21 Tochka-U)
- 4th Field Artillery (TBM) Battalion (OTR-21 Tochka-U)
- 7th Security Battalion
- Artillery Reconnaissance and Observer Battalion
- Training Battalion
- Combat Engineer Company
- Maintenance Company
- Logistics Company
- Signals Company
- Radar Company
- Medical Company
- Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense Platoon CBRN-defense
- Brigade Band

The war in Donbas

According to the interview of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko, the Armed Forces of Ukraine quite intensively used the "Point-U" complexes against Russian irregulars and units of the regular Russian army on the territory of Ukraine. The first cases of use of the complex occurred during the battles for Savur-Mohyla in August 2014. During the two years of the war, a total of about one hundred missiles of the "Point-U" complex with various combat units were launched to perform various tasks.^[3]

In August 2014, after the massive introduction of Russian regular troops into the territory of Ukraine, in connection with the inaccessibility of enemy targets for other firepower during the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the encirclement near Ilovaisk, the General Staff engaged the 1st RDn of the 19th brigade, as well as 1 ReADn of the 107th ReAP. Long-range artillery supported the outgoing Ukrainian units, creating a "corridor of fire". Strikes were planned along the route of advancing units to target places where the enemy was likely to be located (dominant heights, mounds, road intersections, etc.) from the southern side — for 1 RDn 19 RBr, from the northern side — for 1 ReADn 107 ReAP. Fire was opened on call. In the course of this, about 12 group and single missile strikes were carried out using from 1 to 4 Tochka installations and about 15 fire strikes from the Smerch MLRS using from 1 to 3 combat vehicles.^[3]

According to the assumption of InformNapalm, the T-72BA tank that was destroyed in the base camp of the 21st motorized rifle brigade of the Russian Federation west of the village of Kumachevo during the battles for Ilovaisk, could have been hit by a rocket strike of "Points-U".^[4] In October 2014, the militants said that a rocket hit their military base, which was located in the premises of military unit No. 3023 in occupied Donetsk, not far from the airport Prokofiev.^[5]

In August 2016, volunteers of the international Informnapalm community checked information on the use of 9K79-1 "Tochka-U" tactical missile systems and 9K58 "Smerch" multiple rocket launcher systems against units of the Russian Armed Forces in the summer of 2014 and found certain coincidences between the known losses of the Russian military and possible launches of "Point-U" missiles.^[6]

References

^ https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/8832019-30901 DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE №883/2019 "...1. To assign to the 19th missile brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine the honorary title "Saint Barbara" and further to name it - the 19th missile brigade "Saint Barbara" of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
^ "19th Missile Brigade". Retrieved 2023-08-25.
^ ^a ^b Marco, Serg (10 March 2016). "Когда боги артиллерии ставят точку… У". petrimazepa.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
^ "Точка-У, втрати армії РФ та інші збіги у серпні 2014 - InformNapalm.org (Українська)" (in Ukrainian). 2016-07-24. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
^ Ракета «Точка-У» попала в базу террористов возле донецкого аэропорта Archived 1 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine obozrevatel.com, 8 October 2014
^ Михайло Кузнецов (5 August 2016). "Точка-У: втрати армії РФ та інші збіги у серпні 2014". Військові сторінки України. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.

Ukrainian Ground Forces

Armoured
Mechanized Infantry
Mountain Infantry
Rocket Forces and Field Artillery
Anti-aircraft Missile Defense Artillery
Army Aviation
Military Intelligence
Electronic Warfare
Communications and Cyber Security
Corps of Engineers
CBRN Protection

Corps

Strategic Groups

Pivnich: (Sumy, Chernihiv, Kiyv, Volyn)
Khortytsia: (Kharkiv, Lyman, Soledar, Chasiv Yar)
Tavria: (Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Kryvyi Rih)
Odesa: (Kherson, Dunay, Vinnitsia)
Aleksandriya: (Kakhovka, Primorye)

Brigades

Army Aviation

Infantry¹

Presidential
3rd Assault
5th Assault
10th Mountain Assault
11th Motorized
13th Jaeger
14
15
21
22
23
24
28
30
31
32
33
41
42
43
44
47
53
54
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
65
66
67
68th Jaeger
72
88
92nd Assault
93
100
110
115
116
117
118
128th Mountain Assault
141st Infantry
142nd Infantry
143rd Infantry
144th Infantry
150
151
152
153
154
155 Infantry
156 Infantry
157 Infantry
158 Infantry
159 Infantry

Artillery

26
38
40
43
44
45
47
48
49
55
Reconnaissance
- 15
Missile
- 19
Rocket
- 27
- 107

Tank

Engineering

47th
48th
49th Assault Engineering
704th CBRN Protection

Regiments

Tank	300th Training
Mechanized	354 Training 355 Training
Anti-Aircraft Missile	38 39 1039 1121 1129
Artillery	356 Training
Engineering	Operational Support 12 16 70 91 703 Maintenance 31 50 145 146 532 Pontoon bridge 210 808
Signal	5 7 55 121

Battalions

Motorized Infantry	1st Assault 1 2 3 3rd Mechanized 4 6 9 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24th Assault 25 25th Assault 33rd Assault 34 40 42 43rd Territorial Defense 46th Assault 48th Assault 49th Assault 97th Mechanized 108th Assault 117th Assault 214th OPFOR 225th Assault 425th Assault
Tank	12
Mountain	8 15 108 109
Reconnaissance	54 74 120 129 130 131 143
Rifle	1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 44 45 46 48 50 51 52 (Airmobile) 53 54 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 64 65 66 67 68 70 210th Special Purpose 211th Special Purpose 403 405 407 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 451 Infantry 452 Infantry 453 Infantry 454 Infantry 455 Infantry 456 Infantry 457 Infantry 459 460 468
Engineering	308 309 310 311 321 507 534 Pontoon bridge 11
Electronic Warfare	20 520
Others	78 181 182 183 224 225 226 227 307 718