Active 2014 - Allegiance Ministry of Defense | Country Ukraine | |
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Type Battalion of Territorial Defense (BTD) | ||
The 34th Territorial Defense Battalion "Batkivshchyna", also known as the Batkivshchyna Battalion (Battalion "Fatherland"), is a Territorial Defense Battalion of Ukraine formed from volunteers of the "Resistance movement" (70%) and based in Kirovohrad Oblast and it is currently fighting in the War in Donbass. The unit was formed and funded by Batkivshchyna in June 2014 as part of the parties "Resistance movement" that it created because it felt Russia threatened Ukraine.
The battalion (claims to) have its own military intelligence and special operations forces.
On 1 August 2014 the battalion claimed it had destroyed the Lugansk People's Republic's Prizrak Battalion.
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