14th National Guard Battalion (Ukraine)

It was established in 1992 as a part of the National Guard of Ukraine and was later transferred to the Internal Troops of Ukraine.

History

In 2014, the battalion was transferred to the National Guard of Ukraine after its reestablishment.^{[citation needed]} Amidst the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, on the night of 5 April 2014, a group of 7 armed men approached the battalion's barracks in Dnipro, they started shouting and rioting whole pretending to be drunk. A soldier of the regiment (Sergeant Martynenko) approached them and told them to behave quietly but the men attacked them killing the soldier on spot. Then the attackers attacked the other positions but by then, the soldiers had raised the alarm and the guardsmen opened fire. Heavy combat continued and two Companies of the battalion came as reinforcement along with BTR-80 armored vehicles. The attackers tried to flee but faced casualties of one attacker killed and three wounded, in the end all remaining were arrested and 7 Makarov pistols, 2 Kalashnikov assault rifles, and 4 grenades were seized from the attackers.^[1] It took part in the War in Donbass seeing combat in Donetsk Oblast in 2016.^[2][3][4]

It won third place in the Dynamo football tournament in 2024.^[5]

• Lieutenant Colonel Ihor Kalinovsky Vladimirovich (2019-)

• Гвардійці військової частини 3054 відвідали виставку до 330-річчя від обрання І. С. Мазепи гетьманом
• Військовослужбовці НГУ та поліції відпрацювали дії при виникненні екстремальних ситуацій