The division fought at Kursk, Kharkiv, Budapest, and Prague, and was serving with the 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in May 1945.

It served with the Southern Group of Forces in Hungary during the last years of the Cold War,[13] and after the fall of the Berlin Wall was withdrawn to Ukraine from October 1990 to January 1991.

[17] In honor of the centennial year of the Ukrainian War of Independence the brigade received its second honorific title, Kholodnyi Yar (Kholodnyi Yar was a pro-Ukrainian partisan self-proclaimed state that existed from 1919 to 1922), in 2018, and thus its Kharkiv battle honour was officially removed from the full title of the unit.

[28] In June 2017 the brigade moved deeper into the disputed area near the village of Krymske and set up fortifications there "to exert stricter fire control over the enemy, and provides for a better defense.

On the first day of the invasion, the brigade captured two members of Russia's 423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle Regiment.

[35] Later in the war the 93rd Mechanized Brigade was tasked with the defense of Barvinkove in the Kharkiv Oblast; it was forced out of the villages of Zavody and Velyka Komyshuvakha by Russian troops.

[36] By September 2022, the brigade participated in the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive specifically moving against the Operational Group of Russian Forces Izium's vulnerable left flank.

Following this, the city's mayor, Valeriy Marchenko, stated during a September 10 interview that "Izium was liberated today.

[39] Three miles south of Donetsk the 93rd joined the efforts to defeat a counterattack by the Russian 60th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade.

In December 2024 Shamil Krutkov was appointed the commander of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade "Kholodny Yar".

[49] Since 2018, August 22 is considered the anniversary, the day when the brigade was awarded the honorary name "Kholodny Yar" by Presidential Decree No.

[50] On January 22, 2018, Roman Donik announced his intention to give the brigade the honorary name "Kholodny Yar", in honor of the historical area with a long military history.

The words for the new song were written by a soldier of the press service of the 93rd OMBr, junior sergeant Vlad "Zmiy" Sord,[55] and Serhii Vasylyuk, the frontman of the Ukrainian band "Shadow of the Sun", who wrote the music and set Stafiychuk's poem to it.

[63] On February 23, 2019, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Viktor Muzhenko, approved the new emblem of the brigade.