Ukrainian: добровольчий спецпідрозділ МВС України «Крим»
Krym Battalion shoulder sleeve insignia with 2 crossed sabers & an image of a Tamga taraq tamğa
, an ancient family symbol of the Herai dynasty, now the national coat of arms of the Crimean Tatar people.
Active
2014 – present
Country
Ukraine
Type
Police tactical unit
Role
Counterinsurgency
Size
600
Part of
Ministry of Internal Affairs
Garrison/HQ
Kherson, Kherson Oblast
Engagements
Russo-Ukrainian War
War in Donbas
Battle of Krasnyi Lyman
Battle of Yasynuvata
Battle of Debaltseve
Commanders
Current commander
Isa Akaev [uk]
Military unit
The Krym Battalion (Ukrainian: Батальйон «Крим», romanized: Batalyon «Krym»; transl. "Crimea Battalion") is a Ukrainian military volunteer unit subordinated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Created in June 2014, until March 2015, it participated in Anti-terrorist operations in Eastern Ukraine as part of a company of the Special Tasks Patrol Police unit Dnipro-1.[1] The Battalion is based in Kherson.
On November 12, 2014, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and the leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement, Mustafa Dzhemilev, announced the reformation of the Crimean Tatar company into a battalion.[2][3]
In March 2022, it joined the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine.
^"Полумесец над Крим". Archived from the original on 29 November 2014.
^"Мустафа Джемілєв обговорив з Порошенком створення кримськотатарського батальйону". Archived from the original on 29 November 2014., Radiosvoboda.org, 13 November 2014
^"Кримськотатарський батальйон: подалі від російського призову" (in Ukrainian). BBC Україна. 14 November 2014. Archived from the original on 17 November 2014.
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