It has seen combat in multiple battles during the War in Donbass and Russian invasion of Ukraine including the Shyrokyne standoff, during which it faced significant casualties.

[2] In November 2014, the battalion was transferred to the ATO zone in Mariupol, participating in battles near Hranitne and Shyrokyne, directing artillery strikes that destroyed a large scale separatist warehouse in Hranitne containing significant amounts of equipment.

[3] as well as providing assistance to the local civilians, organization of a first aid station and a heating system.

[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] The battalion also saw intensive combat during the Shyrokyne standoff, before the onset of full on hostilities, on 4 February 2015, the battalion conducted a search and strike operation near Shyrokyne with a group of soldiers entering Shyrokyne but they were ambushed fired upon by ATGMs and small arms, a grenade launcher struck their vehicle killing two soldiers of the battalion (Bohdan Vasyliovych Havelia[14] and Oleksandr Mykhailovych Zaichenko[15]) and multiple personnel were wounded.

[16] On 21 February 2015, Shyrokyne was under attack by separatists using mortars and even tanks, the reconnaissance unit of the battalion was ambushed and a soldier (Yevsyukov Oleksandr Evgenovich[17]) was killed, an operation was carried out the next day to relieve the encircled unit during which another soldier (Vakoliuk Volodymyr Pavlovych[18]) was killed in action.