92nd Mechanized Brigade ( Ukraine ) The 92nd Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces . The full name of the Brigade is the 92nd Separate Mechanized Ropshinska Order of the October Revolution and Order of the Red Banner awards Brigade . ( , " 92 okrema mehanizovana Ropshinska oedeniv Zhovtnevoi Revolutsii ta Chervonogo Prapora Brugada " ) The original 48th Rifle Division was established on 26 February 1920 by renaming the 2nd Tula Rifle Division . It became a territorial division after the Soviet - Polish War and was then upgraded to ' cadre ' status . On 2 December 1930 it was given the title ' in the name of M . I . Kalinin . ' In August – September 1939 , two of its rifle regiments were expanded to become the 123rd Rifle Division and the 138th Rifle Division . On June 22 , 1941 , it was assigned to the 10th Rifle Corps of the 8th Army . It was based at Raseiniai in Latvia , part of the second echelon , but soon after Operation Barbarossa began it was severely battered by the 6th Panzer Division . In October 1941 it became part of the Coastal Operations Group of the Leningrad Front , defending the Oranienbaum area . Then fought as part of the 2nd Shock Army and 42nd Army . On 19 January 1944 it was given the title ' Ropshinska . ' After the war , in 1957 the 48th Rifle Division became the 132nd Motor Rifle Division . Later it became the 48th Motor Rifle Ropshinska Order of the October Revolution and Order of the Red Banner awards division named after Mikhail Kalinin . During the 1970s it was stationed in with the Central Group of Forces in Czechoslovakia . It remain in Czechoslovakia until 1990 when it was the first Division to depart ( between February and May 1990 ) . 1996 Jane ' s Intelligence Review information indicated the Division had been moved to Smolensk in the Moscow Military District where it was later disbanded . Russian forum information ( and following ) indicates that it was actually withdrawn to Chuguev in Ukraine using the same garrison as the disbanded 75th Guards Tank Division . It appears that there wasn ’ t enough space for the entire Division , so the 210th MRR was attached to the 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division . The remained of the Division departed for Ukraine , with the last arriving by May 1991 . By then , it had been decided that in order to avoid the restrictions on the CFE Treaty , certain elements of the Soviet Army would be transferred to other non - MOD armed forces . Whole units were transferred to the KGB . When the last of the 48th arrived in Chuguev , the entire Division was transferred to the Directorate of Instruction for Special Purposes KGB by June 1991 . Regiments included the 265 гв . , 1335 мсп , 353 оучб , 31 орб , 813 обс , 88 орвб , 409 обмо , 34 омедб , 99 оиср , 348 орхз . To replace the loss of the 210th MRR , the 255th Guards MRR was formed for the Division , probably from what was left of the 75th GTD . From 1992 the government of Ukraine took command of the Division , and they later redesignated it the 6th Division of the National Guard of Ukraine . On being reassigned back to the Soviet Union it came under command of the Soviet 6th Guards Tank Army . It had its name changed to a brigade circa 2000 . During October 2003 , the 61st Separate Mechanized Battalion was formed . The Battalion was in Iraq from February to September 2004 as a unit of the 6th Mechanized Brigade ( Ukraine ) . 104 soldiers from the brigade have taken part in UN peacekeeping missions to Lebanon , Liberia , Sierra Leone , Former Yugoslavia .