[2] In November 1942 the newly formed Battalion 118 was transferred to Minsk (occupied Byelorussian SSR, now the capital of sovereign Belarus) and from there for approximately one year to a new base on the outskirts of the former Second Polish Republic.

[7] During this time the battalion participated in the German pacification actions, part of the "dead zone" policy of annihilating hundreds of Belarusian villages in order to remove the support base for the alleged partisans.

Entire Jewish communities were exterminated on the general orders of Curt von Gottberg with the necessary backup provided by the Battalions 115 and 102, Baltic collaborators, Belarusian Auxiliary Police, and the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger.

[4] They named themselves the 2nd Ukrainian "Taras Shevchenko" battalion of the FFI (le 2e bataillon ukrainien des Forces françaises de l'intérieur, Groupement Frontière, Sous-région D.2).

[3] A Soviet Union war-crimes trial in 1973 heard that three members of the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 killed a group of Belarusian loggers earlier that day, suspecting they were part of a popular uprising.

[6] The battalion consisted of three companies totalling 500 men, which in turn were divided into three platoons each: Names of individuals on record include: I. Kozynchenko, G. Spivak, S. Sakhnо, O. Knap, T. Topchiy, I. Petrichuk, Lakustа (Лакуста), Lukovich (Лукович), Scherban, Varlamov, Khrenov, Yegorov, Subbotin, Iskanderov, Khachaturyan, and Vladimir Katriuk (Катрюк),[5] implicated by witness along with Ivankiv, and Meleshko (Мелешко).

[6] Tried in the Soviet Union and sentenced to minor prison terms (for political reasons, as good citizens) were Fedorenko (Федоренко), Golchenko (Гольченко), Vertelnikov (Вертельников), Gontarev (Гонтарев), Funk (Функ), Medvedev (Медведев), Yakovlev (Яковлев), Lappo (Лаппо), Osmakov (Осьмаков), Sulzhenko (Сульженко), Trofimov (Трофимов), Vorobya (Воробья), Kolbasin (Колбасин), and Muravev (Муравьёв).