93rd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade "Kholodnyi Yar"
93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade "Kholodnyi Yar"
93-тя окрема механізована бригада «Холодний Яр»; 93 okrema mekhanizovana bryhada "Kholodnyi Yar"
	Brigade insignia
Active	January 1, 1992 – present
Country	Ukraine
Branch	Ukrainian Ground Forces
Type	Mechanized infantry
Size	3,000 (June 2023)
Part of	Operational Command East
Garrison/HQ	Cherkaske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Nickname(s)	'Kholodnyi Yar' (Official); 'Cyborgs' (Unofficial)
Motto(s)	"Never Backwards!"
Engagements	Russo-Ukrainian war War in Donbas Battle of Ilovaisk; Second Battle of Donetsk Airport; Battle of Debaltseve; Battle of Marinka; Battle of Avdiivka; ; Russian invasion of Ukraine Eastern Ukraine campaign Battle of Kharkiv; Battle of Sumy; Battle of Bakhmut; ; 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive; Battle of Chasiv Yar; ; ;
Decorations	; For Courage and Bravery
Website	Official Facebook page
Commanders
Current; commander	Col. Shamil Krutkov (2024 – present)
Notable; commanders	Col. Ruslan Shevchuk (January 21, 2021 – 2023); Col. Pavlo Palisa (2023 – 2024)
Insignia
Garrison color
Old Insignia ; 2023

The 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade "Kholodnyi Yar" (Ukrainian: 93-тя окрема механізована бригада «Холодний Яр», romanized: 93 okrema mekhanizovana bryhada "Kholodnyi Yar") is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces formed in 1992. It has been described as "one of the most brutally effective" of Ukraine’s front-line brigades.

By January 2023, Western analysts claimed that due to captured Russian and donated Western equipment and incorporation of local volunteer battalions into the units structure, the 93rd was the size of an armored division, being a mechanized brigade in name only. The brigade is named after the Kholodnyi Yar Republic, a Ukrainian partisan state during the Ukrainian War of Independence.