[5] In February 2016, the 5th UDA Battalion, along with the Ukrainian Ground Forces' 74th Reconnaissance Battalion, fought in the Battle of Avdiivka, where they took positions in the Avdiiv industrial zone and fought for control of a part of the Donetsk-Horlivka highway in the area of the Yasynuvata junction.

[6] Later in June 2016, the UDA's 8th Battalion was deployed to Shyrokyne to perform reconnaissance operations against local separatist forces.

[5] On October 14, 2018, Dmytro Yarosh, the commander of the UDA, announced that the 5th and 8th separate battalions of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army would be leaving the front line.

[2] He stated that the most important task for the UDA at that time was the construction of territorial defense units with clear functionality.

[citation needed] In 2021 political scientist Huseyn Aliyev described the UDA as holding a "generic form" of Ukrainian nationalism, which allowed the inclusion of ethnic minorities, including Muslim Crimean Tatars and Chechens, and ethnic Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, and Romani.