121st Communications Regiment (Ukraine)

It was originally established in 1941 and partook in the Second World War.^[2]

In January 1992 , the regiment took an oath of allegiance to Ukraine and as of 24 June 2006, it was named the 121st Separate Guards Linear-Nodal Fokshan-Mukden Orders of Alexander Nevsky and the Red Star Signal Regiment.^[3]

It took part and saw action during the War in Donbass.^[4] On 29 August 2014, during the Battle of Ilovaisk in Novokaterinivka, the brigade commander's UAZ and the communications armored R-149BMR personnel carrier were hit by BM-21 Grads and four servicemen of the brigade including the brigade commander Borys Borisovich Kyforenko^[5] and three other personnel (Yakiv Nikolaevich Guba,^[6] Yevgeny Olegovich Solodovnyk^[7] and Igor Vladimirovich Yurkovets^[8]) were killed in action. The commander was tied up with tape by Russian paratroopers of the 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment who arrived in a BMP-2 and left him for dead. On 18 November 2015, the it was stripped off of Soviet awards and titles and became the 121st Separate Guards Signal Brigade^[9] with the word "Guards" being stripped soon after on 22 August 2016.^[10] Moreover, the brigade was also engaged during the Siege of Sloviansk as well as operations in Krasnohorivka, Vodiane and Pisky.^[11]

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it saw combat. On 19 December 2023, a soldier of the regiment (Reshetilenko Andrij Pavlovych) was killed on the frontlines.^[12][13]

The structure of the regiment is as follows:

• Management & Headquarters
• 1st Signal Battalion
• 2nd Signal Battalion
• Radio relay Battalion
• Mobile Communications Battalion
• Material support Company
• Logistical Support Company
• Repair Company
• Commandant Platoon