“Soldiers of the Operational Command “West” conduct an official investigation in the 155th separate mechanized brigade named after Anna Kyiv. The results will be transferred to law enforcement agencies. Source: Commander of OK “West” Brigade General Volodymyr Shvediuk in a comment to “Ukrainian Truth” Direct Language: “Recent facts concerning possible offenses by individual officials within part, became the basis for the appointment of my official investigation.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Commander of OK “West” Brigade General Volodymyr Shvedyuk in a comment “Ukrainian Truth”
Direct language: “The recent facts concerning possible offenses by individual officials inside the part have become the basis for the appointment of my official investigation. A special group of the most experienced officers of OK” West “is sent to the brigade. We are fundamentally and impartially to find out all the circumstances and to establish all the details of the offenses. organs. ”
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Details: Schvedyuk noted that the 155th was created as an infantry brigade, and in the course of combat training was transformed into a mechanized one.
The brigade general emphasized that after the departure of the military of the 155th OMBR to the area of hostilities, together with OK officers arrived at the front and participated in the deployment of the brigade. According to the commander, for four months, from December 2024 to March 2025, representatives of OK passed the experience, taught, and sometimes managed the actions of the team.
Direct language: “In fact, the operational command built a system of combat management jointly and under the direction of the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to eliminate managerial chaos and inaction that arose as a result of a short -term leadership by the” combat officer “of the previous commander of the brigade Objective conclusions decided to dismiss from the previous commander of the brigade of Colonel Dmitry Rymshyn. ”
Details: Schvedyuk added that in such circumstances, the staff body of OK “West” in “Avral mode” has selected several candidates for the position of commander of the 155th. The main criteria, continued by the brigade general, were – the presence of combat experience, the ability to control in extreme crisis situations and positive characteristics by command from the places of previous service.
According to the commander, the candidature of Colonel Taras Maximov, who was then the deputy combrigant of the 14th OMBR, in view of all parameters and extensive combat experience, proved to be “the most reasonable”. Therefore, it was agreed to the OK West and submitted for approval to the Armed Forces Command.
Direct language: “I fully support the position of the Commander of the Land Forces of Major General Michael Drapaty: regardless of positions, titles or past merit, everyone who violated the law will be fully responsible for this.
That preceded: On May 19, “Ukrainian Truth” released the material “Business on” combat “payments and a massive HSC. As a new command” raises from the knees “155th mechanized brigade.
Among other things, the material refers to the possible involvement of Colonel Taras Maximov’s Combrigen in the appointment of fictitious “combat” payments and demanding of them “rollbacks”, more than 1.2 thousand cases of HCP from the beginning of 2025 and insufficient provision of units.
After the publication of the UP article, the commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mikhail Drapaty, appointed an additional official check in the 155th mechanized brigade.
Prehistory:
- In early May, the security forces detained Acting Commander of the battalion of unmanned systems of the 155th separate mechanized brigade of Lieutenant Colonel Svyatoslav Shumsky. According to law enforcement officers, the military official demanded from the subordinates to “discard” for accruing fictitious allowances for their participation in the fighting on the forefront.
- The court chose the suspected preventive measure – detention at the guardhouse for a period of 60 days with an alternative to collateral in 49 million hryvnias