5th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

Mission objectives

• Maintain stability and safety in Wasit Governorate
• Reconnaissance and destruction of terrorist and organized crime groups, detainment and court judgment of military criminals
• Provide support for Coalition Provisional Authority in reconstruction of civil departments
• Provide help with development of judicial system, which supports the rights of all Iraqi residents, and provides inner security
• Provide support together with other organizations in rebuilding of schooling, medical, electrical and water systems, industrial complexes, creation of new work places
• Form and train a battalion of Iraqi Civil Defense Corps
• Form and train 3 battalions for the Department of Border enforcement

  Operations

• Operation Chamberlain

  Brigade Order of Battle

• 51st Separate Mechanized Battalion
• 52nd Separate Mechanized Battalion
• 19th Separate Specialized Battalion

  Dislocation

Casualties

• Sgt. Yuriy Koydan - Died of injuries suffered when his BRDM-2 armored reconnaissance vehicle overturned while patrolling an air base near Al Kūt in southern Iraq on 30 September 2003
• Private Sergiy Suslov - Died from a non-combat related injury.
• Captain Oleksii Bondarenko - Committed suicide by shooting himself in Al Kūt, Iraq, on 19 November 2003

  Next rotation

• 6th Separate Mechanized Brigade