On 31 July 2014, 120 soldiers of the battalion took the oath of loyalty to Ukraine and went to ATO zone at the start of August 2014.

[1][2] In August 2014, the "Ivano-Frankivsk" battalion took part in the Battle of Ilovaisk[3] during which eight soldiers of the Battalion (Andriy Mykhailovych Karabinovych,[4] Mykhailo Anatoliyovych Pogorelov,[5] Zoryan Mykhailovych Bilinskyi,[6] Perepichka Oleg Hryhorovych,[7] Dmytro Viktorovych Pacino,[8] Hrytsyk Roman Vasyliovych,[9] Yuriy Ivanovich Kosovchych[10] and Ihor Stepanovych Harasymchuk[11]) were killed and a vehicle of the brigade was also destroyed.

On 31 August 2014, battalion commander Oleksandr Polishchuk and 17 other soldiers broke through the encirclement in Ilovaisk and marched towards Dnipropetrovsk, four were severely wounded and had to be evacuated by helicopter.

[12] On 12 September 2014, despite the heavy losses sustained during the Battle of Ilovaisk, the battalion again went to the ATO zone stating: "It's scary to drive, you have to attack to survive.

[13] In September–October 2014, civilians from Transcarpathia provided large amount of aid for the fighters of the "Ivano-Frankivsk" battalion.