[1] On 27 January 1942, two freelance companies of the Special Battalion of the Special Department of the NKVD arrived at the disposal of the task force headed by Major Vasyl Alekseev for the establishment of a new regiment, 310 personnel with weapons and equipment arrived and on the same day, they were joined by 54 soldiers of the 20th and 21st border outposts of the 8th border detachment.

From 1945 to 1992, the regiment and its units served in Berlin specifically Biesdorf, Weissensee, Karlshorst and Rummelsburg as well as in Potsdam, Leipzig, Rostock, Schwerin, Sigmar and Erfurt.

[2] On 23 August 2019, on the Day of the State Flag, the detachment was awarded the honorary name "Prince Vladimir the Great".

On the morning of 24 February 2022, at the start of the invasion, at the first alarm signals, the detachment retreated its equipment from the border on three armored personnel carriers but lost two vehicles during strikes by Russian forces.

[4] Three guardsmen of the detachment (Horytsky Oleksandr Mykhailovych, Chuban Sergey Mykolayovych and Andriy Vasyliovych Khovrenko) were killed on the outskirts of Chernihiv on 26 February 2022.

[7] On 28 March 2022, four guardsmen of the detachment (Patyutko Stanislav Stanislavovich,[8] Ovdiy Ihor Anatoliyovych,[9] Anton Myahky[10] and Andriy Samusenko[10]) were killed in combat in Chernihiv.

[21] On 18 October 2023, in the vicinity of the village of Yelyzavetivka, a guardsman of the detachment (Oleksandr Mykhailovych Bybyk) was killed as a result of mortar shelling.

[22] On 31 August 2024, a guardsman of the detachment (Bohdan Luchyshyn Rava-Ruska) was killed in a border skirmish with Russian forces in Mikhalchyna-Sloboda in Novhorod-Siverskyi urban hromada.

[24] On 19 September 2024, Russian forces attacked Novhorod-Siverska, Semenivska and Snovska, Halyna Shekhovtsova with artillery, drones and mortars resulting in 85 explosions per the detachment.

[27] On 15 November 2024, the detachment stated that the Russian forces attacked three border communities of Chernihiv Oblast with FPV drones and mortars.