[1][2][3] In January 2013, the 24th Separate River Boats Division was established and was to be equipped with Gyurza-M-class gunboats.

So Hetman Sahaidachny set up a smoke screen and the gunboats encircled the Russian ship and it was forced to retreat.

[7][8][9] On 1 July 2018, four newly built gunboats were incorporated into the division after a ceremony and training exercises were carried out.

[10] On 25 November 2018, two vessels of the first division Berdyansk Nikopol and a tugboat Yany Kapu attempted to travel from the Black Sea port of Odesa in south-western Ukraine to the Azov Sea port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine but were intercepted by Russian warships and were all captured in the ensuing Kerch Strait incident.

[12] In November 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, the vessel Nikopol of the division was damaged by a Russian ZALA Lancet attack.