On 18 July, units from the 93rd Mechanized Brigade came to Zenith base with a force consisting of four tanks and a pair of BMP-2s.

After a month, the "Avdiivka" division of the 156th regiment was transferred to Zolotonosha as the Zenit position was handed over to Wild Duck Detachment.

[6][7] On 3 September 2014, personnel from the Dnipro-1 Regiment were ambushed and besieged near the village of Pisky on the highway between Avdiivka and Donetsk.

[8][9] On 11 July 2015, a soldier of the regiment (Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Baranenko) was killed by a separatist sniper whilst serving in the ATO zone.

[10] On.13 May 2016, a soldier of the regiment (Kostyantyn Valentynovich Grinchenko) was killed from the wounds suffered as a result of an earlier engagement with separatists.