The Revanche Tactical Group is a Ukrainian

Battalion Tactical Group A battalion tactical group (, ''batal'onnaya takticheskaya gruppa''), abbreviated as BTG, is a Combined arms, combined-arms manoeuvre unit deployed by the Russian Army that is kept at a high level of readiness. A BTG typically comprises a battali ...

, part of the

spetsnaz SpetsnazThe term is borrowed from rus, спецназ, p=spʲɪtsˈnas; abbreviation for or 'Special Purpose Military Units'; or () are special forces in many post-Soviet states. Historically, this term referred to the Soviet Union's Spet ...

units of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine formed in March 2022 in

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and

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as a response to the

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and has taken part in multiple combat operations throughout the

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History

The Revanchists from the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion took up arms to take part in the Defense of Kyiv as part of the

Northern Ukraine campaign The northern Ukraine campaign was a theater of operation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It involved attacks by Russia across the Russo-Ukrainian and Belarusian–Ukrainian borders, beginning on 24 February 2022, for control of Kyiv, the ...

directly taking part in the

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, capture of Rudnytske, and

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in Lukianivka. On 25 March 2022 , Kyrychenko Dmytro Volodymyrovych, Commander of the tactical group's 1st was killed during the liberation of Lukianivka. On 26 March 2022, the Revanchists, together with the

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and volunteer units, stubbornly drove the Russians out of Lukianivka and consolidated their positions destroying more than twenty units of heavy equipment. Two tanks were captured and were incorporated into the tactical group. A Russian sniper from the 2nd

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regiment was captured and valuable information about Russian commanders was also obtained. In March 2022, the group participated in the

2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive On September 6, 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a major counteroffensive against the Russian military during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As Ukraine announced the start of the 2022 Kherson counteroffensive, Kherson counteroffensi ...

capturing Vilkhivka killing 70 Russian soldiers and capturing 27 more. KSHM and

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s were captured and incorporated into the group. On 2 July 2022, soldier of the tactical group, Gavryliv Petro was killed in combat. On 7 June 2023, a soldier of the tactical group, Sheremet Ruslan Ruslanovich was killed during a "special operation", the exact circumstances were not disclosed. On 14 July 2023, three soldiers of the tactical group, Vlasenko Anatoliy, Roman Ilyuk and Oleg Smirnov were killed near Pidstepne as a result of mortar shelling on the positions captured on the left bank of Dnieper. On 6 August 2023, four soldiers of the tactical group, Senyuk Bohdan Olehovych, Voronov Oleksiy Vasylyovych, Onyshchenko Vladislav and Sivash Anton were killed in combat as a result of strikes between the villages of Pidstepne and Kozachi Laheri in the

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and a fifth soldier Yesypenko Yevheniy was killed there, the next day. In July 2024, the unit participated in the

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and the Commander Bohdan Khodakovsky reported that the tactical group was defending and preventing Russians from crossing the

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. On 1 September 2024, a tactical group soldier Osukhovskyi Danylo Oleksandrovych was killed in Kharkiv Oblast. On 21 September 2024, three tactical group personnel, Anton Shatylo, Khudyakov Ruslan and Kolbasinsky Artem were killed in combat while performing "offensive operations".

Famous Personnel

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is a part of the tactical group.https://wz.lviv.ua/interview/455422-tse-ne-viina-a-realno-henotsyd

Commanders

* Bohdan Khodakovskyi (2022-)

References

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