Batkivshchyna Battalion

The 34th Territorial Defense Battalion, is a Territorial Defense Battalion of Ukraine formed from volunteers of the "Resistance movement" (70%) and based in Kirovohrad Oblast and it is currently fighting in the war in Donbas.^[1] The unit was formed in June 2014 as part of the parties "Resistance movement" that it created because it felt Russia threatened Ukraine.^[2]

34th Territorial Defense Battalion Ukrainian: 34-й батальйон територіальної оборони
Unit insignia
Active	2014 - present
Country	Ukraine
Allegiance	Ministry of Defense
Type	Battalion of Territorial Defense (BTD)

The battalion (claims to) have its own military intelligence and special operations forces.^[3]

On 1 August 2014, the battalion claimed it had destroyed the Luhansk People's Republic's Prizrak Battalion;^[4] this claim was false, and the Prizrak Battalion later participated in the Battle of Debaltseve.^[5]

It is fighting as part of the 57th Brigade in Bakhmut during the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

See also

• Temporarily occupied and uncontrolled territories of Ukraine
• Ukrainian volunteer battalions (since 2014)
• Batkivshchyna

References

1. (in Ukrainian) Promised REMEDIES TRANSFORMATION 34 BATTALION territorial defense, Kirovohrad Oblast Council (26 July 2014)
2. (in Ukrainian) Militants received humanitarian aid from Russia, LB (2 August 2014)
3. (in Ukrainian) Battalion "Fatherland" said to have killed the leader of the terrorists Lyeshoho, LB (1 August 2014)
4. The Ukrainian security officers struck blow to a battalion of terrorists "Ghost" and hard wounded his leader Leshego, Crime NO (1 August 2014)
5. "Alexei Mozgovoi's "Ghost" brigade in the Debaltsevo operation". Life News. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.