The Sumy Border Detachment (9953) is a
brigade
A brigade is a major tactical military unit, military formation that typically comprises three to six battalions plus supporting elements. It is roughly equivalent to an enlarged or reinforced regiment. Two or more brigades may constitute ...
level detachment of the Eastern Department of the
State Border Service of Ukraine. The detachment guards the
Russia-Ukraine border in three Raions (
Konotop Raion
Konotop Raion (, ) is a raion in Sumy Oblast in Central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the town of Konotop. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Sumy Oblast wa ...
,
Sumy Raion
Sumy Raion () is a raion (district) in Sumy Oblast in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Sumy, which was formerly administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance until 2020. Population:
On 18 ...
and
Okhtyrka Raion) of
Sumy Oblast
Sumy Oblast (), also known as Sumshchyna (), is an oblast (province) in northeast Ukraine. The oblast was created in its modern-day form, from the merging of raions from Kharkiv Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, and Poltava Oblast in 1939 by the Presid ...
. The detachment guards a border length of 562.5 km, 464.5 km on land and 98 km on river.
History
It was established on 20 October 1992 and armed with
GAZ-66
The GAZ-66 is a Soviet Union, Soviet and later Russian four wheel drive, 4x4 all-road (off-road) military truck produced by GAZ. It was one of the main cargo vehicles for motorized infantry of the Soviet Army and is still employed in former Sovi ...
, UAZ and LuAZ vehicles and started operations in 1993. In 2000, the Sumy border control unit became the Sumy Border Detachment following the merger of "Krasnopillya" detachment into it. In 2001, 228 illegal migrants were detained by the detachment.
From 2016 to 2018, the detachment saw combat during the
war in Donbass
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.
[ On 3 October 2017 , 2 officers of the Sumy border detachment were monitoring the border. At around 8:00 p.m., the connection with them was lost, and at the same time, a message appeared in the Russian media about the detention of two guardsmen of the Sumy Detachment by the FSB Border Service of Russia. The captured personnel were released on 2 March 2018, as a part of a prisoner exchange. In 2021, the detachment conducted joint training with the ]National Guard of Ukraine
The National Guard of Ukraine (NGU; , ; /NHU ) is the Ukrainian national gendarmerie and internal military force. It is part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, responsible for public security. Originally created as an agency under the dire ...
.
A column
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of Russian military vehicles crossed the international border at the checkpoint, manned by the personnel of the Sumy Detachment around 5:00 on 24 February.Khutir-Mykhailivskyi
Khutir-Mykhailivskyi (), between 1962–2024 known as Druzhba (, ), is a small List of cities in Ukraine, city in the Shostka Raion of the Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. The population is
History
In the past, two settlements, Zhuravka and Yurasivka w ...
detachment was killed in Chernihiv
Chernihiv (, ; , ) is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within the oblast. Chernihiv's population is
The city was designated as a Hero City of Ukraine ...
.[Литвяк Сергій Анатолійович]
/ref> Another guardsman of the detachment was killed in Chernihiv on 14 March 2022. On 13 March 2022, a former member of the detachment who had since joined the Luhansk border detachment was killed, reportedly at Shchastia
Shchastia (, , ; ) is a city, the former ''de jure'' administrative center of Shchastia Raion in the Luhansk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its population was reported as
The Luhansk power station, a large power plant built in the 1950s, is loc ...
.
Structure
The structure of the detachment is as follows:
* Management and Headquarters
* Border Service Department "Yunakivka"
* Border Service Department "Svesa"
* Border Service Department "Bilopillia"
* Border Service Department "Velika Pysarivka"
* Border Service Department "Krasnopillia"
* Border Service Department "Nova Sloboda"
* Border Service Department "Seredina-Buda"
* Border Service Department "Shalygine"
* Border Service Department "Znob-Novgorodske"
* Border Service Department "Konotop"
* Border Service Department "Sopych"
* Border Service Department "Slavhorod"
* Border Service Department "Zernove"
* Border Service Department "Khutir Mykhailivskyi"
* Mobile Border Outpost "Sumy"
* Guardian units
Commanders
* Colonel Yurii Oleksiiovych Lozynskyi (October 1992-July 1999)
* Lieutenant Colonel Danilov Pavlo Engelsovich (July 1999-January 2002)
* Lieutenant Colonel Ihor Borisovych Tokovy (January 2002-January 2003)
* Lieutenant Colonel Legkodukh Vadym Anatoliyovych (January 2003-July 2005)
* Lieutenant Colonel Ptitsya Oleksandr Hryhorovych (July 2005-November 2007)
* Lieutenant Colonel Polovnikov Viktor Volodymyrovych (November 2007-October 2010)
* Berkut Lieutenant Colonel Volodymyr Yuriyovych (October 2010-November 2014)
* Colonel Dmytro Valentinovych Ilchynskyi (November 2014-June 2015)
* Colonel Yuriy Volodymyrovych Ratnikov (June 2015-November 2015)
* Colonel Valery Mykolayovych Kravchuk (December 2015 – 2020)
* Colonel Mykola Stepanovych Romanchuk (2020-)
References
{{Border Guard of Ukraine
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
Military units and formations of Ukraine in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Military units and formations established in 1992
Brigades of Ukraine