Odessa Sea Guard Detachment

On 1 November 2009, it was again awarded as the "Best Military Unit of the Southern Regional Directorate of the State Border Service of Ukraine" and then for the third time in 2010.

[3] On 7 August 2014, a sea guardsman of the detachment (Kolisnychenko Yevhen Anatoliyovych) was killed in combat during the Battle of the border.

[5] On 12 May 2021, the detachment discovered and thwarted the Russian missile corvette "Pavel Derzhavin" in the Black Sea near the city of Chornomorsk.

[9] On 5 March 2022, the detachment evacuated 40 foreign crew members amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[12] In 2023, it also conducted regular patrols in the Black Sea aimed at deterring the Russian fleet as well as boarding suspicious vehicles in search of ammunition and equipment being transported.