The 8th Special Purpose Regiment "Jaguar" (military unit 3028) is a formation of the Internal Troops of Ukraine, which existed from 1994 to 2014 and was stationed in the city of Kalynivka.
[2] The unit participated in the ATO, particularly the defense of the Kramatorsk Airport and the battles for Semenivka near Slovyansk, where it suffered its first losses.
[7] Jaguar activity gained particular resonance after the statement of People's Deputy of Ukraine Oleh Liashko about the involvement of the unit's employees, whom he gave by name, in bullying Euromaidan self-defense Cossack Mykhailo Havryliuk during the 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots in Kyiv in January 2014.
[8] Previously, the lieutenant general of the police, the former head of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kyiv, People's Deputy of Ukraine Vitaly Yarema stated that Havrylyuk was abused by the employees of the special purpose unit "Omega".
[10] On the morning of 8 April 2014, Jaguar servicemen liberated the building of the Kharkiv regional administration, in which pro-Russian separatists barricaded themselves.
[11] With the reestablishment of the National Guard of Ukraine, the special unit was reorganized into the 8th Regiment of Operational Assignment of the NSU.