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The 43rd Separate Artillery Brigade named after Hetman Taras Tryasyl ( Ukrainian: 43-тя окрема артилерійська бригада імені гетьмана Тараса Трясила) is a unit of the
Divychky
On 14 October 2020 by presidential decree the brigade was assigned the honorary name "named after Hetman Taras Tryasyl", a
Rocket Artillery Battalion
** 191st Self-propelled Artillery Battalion (
The brigade is the only Ukrainian unit in the Ukrainian Ground Forces to operate 2S7 Pion and PzH 2000 artillery systems. The brigade is also the second unit in the Ground Forces to receive Archer artillery systems.
File:Бойові стрільби артилерійських підрозділів на полігоні “Дівички” (30052740373).jpg, Artillery units conduct live fire exercises at Divychky Training Ground, Kyiv Oblast.
File:Навчання воїнів-артилеристів Cухопутних військ ЗС України 05.jpg, Artillery operators of the Ground Forces being trained in 2017.
File:2S7 Pion and KrAZ-6446, Kyiv 2018, 53.jpg, A 2S7 Pion of the brigade at a military parade in 2018.
Ground Forces
An army, ground force or land force is an armed force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or country. It may also include aviation assets by p ...
iDivychky
On 14 October 2020 by presidential decree the brigade was assigned the honorary name "named after Hetman Taras Tryasyl", a
hetman
''Hetman'' is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders (comparable to a field marshal or imperial marshal in the Holy Roman Empire). First used by the Czechs in Bohemia in the 15th century, ...
of the Zaporizhian Cossacks
The Zaporozhian Cossacks (in Latin ''Cossacorum Zaporoviensis''), also known as the Zaporozhian Cossack Army or the Zaporozhian Host (), were Cossacks who lived beyond (that is, downstream from) the Dnieper Rapids. Along with Registered Cossac ...
. On 3 November 2022, the brigade was awarded the honorary award "For Courage and Bravery" by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukraini ...
.
Structure
As of 2025, the 43rd Artillery Brigade's known structure is as follows: * 43rd Artillery Brigade ** Brigade Headquarters *** Management *** Commandant Platoon ** 1st Artillery Battalion ** 2nd Artillery Battalion ** 3rd Artillery Battalion ** 4th Artillery Battalion ** Rocket Artillery Battalion
** 191st Self-propelled Artillery Battalion (2S7 Pion
The 2S7 Pion ("peony") or 2S7M Malka is a Soviet self-propelled 203 mm cannon. "2S7" is its GRAU designation. More than 250 units were built; some sources say 500, others up to 1,000. They were distributed around the former Soviet states ...
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** 209th Anti-tank Artillery Battalion (MT-12 Rapira
2A19 or T-12 is a Soviet-designed 100-mm anti-tank gun. It was the first anti-tank gun to adopt a smoothbore barrel, and to introduce modern armor piercing shot, like the APFSDS. It uses long projectiles that are more powerful than its caliber ...
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** Artillery Reconnaissance Battalion
** Engineer Company
** Maintenance Company
** Logistic Company
** Signal Company
** Radar Company
** Medical Company
** CBRN Protection Company
** Guards Battalion
Equipment
The brigade is the only Ukrainian unit in the Ukrainian Ground Forces to operate 2S7 Pion and PzH 2000 artillery systems. The brigade is also the second unit in the Ground Forces to receive Archer artillery systems.
Artillery
*2S7 Pion
The 2S7 Pion ("peony") or 2S7M Malka is a Soviet self-propelled 203 mm cannon. "2S7" is its GRAU designation. More than 250 units were built; some sources say 500, others up to 1,000. They were distributed around the former Soviet states ...
– Soviet self-propelled artillery
* Archer
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern ...
– Swedish wheeled self-propelled howitzer
* MT-12
MT-12 or 2A29 is a Soviet Union, Soviet smoothbore 100 mm anti-tank gun, which served as the primary towed anti-tank artillery in the Soviet army from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. It has seen significant use in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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– Soviet Anti-tank Gun
* PzH 2000
The Panzerhaubitze 2000 (), meaning "armoured howitzer 2000" and abbreviated PzH 2000, is a German 155 mm Self-propelled gun, self-propelled howitzer developed by KNDS Deutschland (formerly Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW)) and Rheinmetall in the 198 ...
– German self-propelled howitzer
Vehicles
*MT-LBu
The MT-LBu is a Soviet Union, Soviet multi-purpose fully amphibious vehicle, amphibious armoured carrier which was developed under the factory index Ob'yekt 10 in the late 1960s, based on the MT-LB. It has a more powerful engine, a 40 cm high ...
– Soviet armored transporter
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