On 9 June 2015, brigade Lieutenant Ivan Zubkov was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine posthumously for calling in artillery fire on himself during the battle at Donetsk Airport.

[7] At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the brigade spent a month defending the city of Izium.

[9] They fought in Izyum, Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Bohorodychne, Sviatohirsk, Yarova, Drobysheve, and liberated Lyman.

After fighting for Bohorodychne for more than three months, the brigade raised the Ukrainian flag over the village on September 11, 2022.

[11] On September 24, Russian military bloggers reported that the brigade liberated half of Novoselivka, just 10 km north of Lyman.