32nd Separate Mechanized "Steel" Brigade

The 32nd Separate Mechanized "Steel" Brigade (32 OMBr) is a mechanized formation of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, brigade-sized. Part of the "North" Operational Command.

In the summer of 2023, it fought in the Svatove direction, in the area of Kupiansk. In 2024, it defended the border in Sumy Oblast.

In early 2023, the 32nd Separate Mechanized Brigade was created. It became one of the newly formed brigades organized to reinforce and hold the positions that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had managed to reach by the end of 2022.

After training and combat coordination in Germany, from June 2023 the brigade fought in the Svatove direction.

As of August 2023, the brigade was fighting in the Kupiansk area.

As of March 2024, it was part of the "North" Operational Command.

As of May 2024, the brigade was in Sumy Oblast.

On May 6, 2024, the brigade received its battle flag.

As of July 2024, it was fighting in the Toretsk direction.

On May 5, 2025, the brigade was given the honorary name "Steel."

The brigade includes:
2nd Mechanized Battalion;
3rd Mechanized Battalion;
Tank Battalion;
"UMBRELLA" Unmanned Systems Battalion.

T-64BV tanks, M-113 armored personnel carriers, 2S1 "Gvozdika" self-propelled howitzers.

February 28 is considered the founding day of the 32nd OMBr.

On May 6, 2024, on Infantry Day, the 32nd Separate Mechanized Brigade received its battle flag from the hands of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

On May 5, 2025, the 32nd Separate Mechanized Brigade, "in order to restore the historical traditions of the national army, in view of the exemplary performance of assigned tasks in defending the territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine," was given the honorary name "Steel." Full name: "32nd Separate Mechanized 'Steel' Brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."