[5] From the very beginning, Andrii Filonenko, with the assistance of Ukrainian People's Deputy Oleh Liashko, was involved in the creation of the "Ukraine" battalion.

Ruslan Onyshchenko, who held the position of deputy commander for combat training, began additional recruitment of volunteers from Donetsk, Luhansk, as well as other regions of Ukraine.

People's deputy of Ukraine Oleh Liashko, head of the branch of the Party of Regions in Torez Vitaly Kropachev, and adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko also took part in the creation of the Shakhtarsk battalion.

[7] As part of the "Shakhtarsk" battalion, the "Hundreds of Jesus Christ" fighters from the "Brotherhood" of Dmytro Korchinsky, which was formed in the Maidan.

[10] Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Anton Gerashchenko, was present at the swearing-in ceremony[7] and Deputy Chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk State Administration Borys Filatov.

[11] Disarming separatists, maintaining public order in liberated cities and checkpoints are among the main tasks of the battalion, which it must perform in the anti-terrorist zone.

Therefore, such a forced decision was madeAs the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko noted, after the disbandment of the battalion, the personnel of the former Shakhtarsk was divided into two groups: the unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "St. Mary", which included volunteers from Shakhtarsk and Azov from the political party "Brotherhood" of Dmytro Korchinsky, and a group of MIA employees who were decided to be sent to replenish other volunteer units of the MIA.