[2] The unit was first established as "Dnipro-1" Special Tasks Patrol Police Battalion in April 2014 on a voluntary basis as the response to 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine.

[3][4][5][6] Its assignments included duties at multiple checkpoints in the south-eastern part of Ukraine.

[7] The unit claimed to have hired Romanian and Georgian military advisers to help with the training of troops.

[9][10][11] Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi (who was Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast during the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine) is believed to have spent $10 million to create the unit.

[14] The unit was involved in the liberation of Lyman during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.