5th Battalion Tactical Group is a Battalion tactical group of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces and is subordinated to 81st Aeromobile Brigade of the Air Assault Forces.

It was established in 2015 as a combined arms warfare unit and since then, has taken part in multiple engagements.

On December 31, 2014, the directive for establishment of the battalion at Kremenchuk was signed[1] and it was supposed to be headquartered at the base of 107th Rocket Artillery Regiment, but due to space unavailability the plan was ultimately changed in favor of establishing a new base at Zhytomyr.

[3][4] On June 12, 2015, after complete preparation it was deployed to ATO zone[5] especially at the city of Mykolaivka in Donetsk Oblast.

[6] In March 2022, the battalion was deployed to Zaporizhzhia Oblast where since then, it has been actively taking part in the Battle of Huliaipole.