The 31st Separate Communication and Radio Technical Support Regiment "Hetman Mykhailo Doroshenko" is a regiment of the Ukrainian Air Force tasked with providing communication facilities to the units of Air Command Center. It is named after Mykhailo Doroshenko who was the hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks. It is garrisoned in Kyiv.
History In January 1992, the 133rd Communications Unit of the 8th Separate Air Defense Army along with other units swore allegiance to Ukraine following the Dissolution of the Soviet union becoming a part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces being reorganized into the 18th Communications Unit of the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces on 1 May 1993. Later, it was reformed into the 31st Communications Brigade and in then in 2004, it was reorganized into the 31st Communications Regiment of the Air Command Center. It was the first unit of the Ukrainian Air Force that accepted Military Chaplains after the end of the Communist rule.31-й окремий полк зв'язку Повітряних сил ЗСУ святкує 75-річчя
Since 2014, the regiment has been participating in the War in Donbass providing communication facilities to the Air Force units in the ATO zone.31-й окремий полк зв'язку Повітряних сил ЗСУ святкує 75-річчя (ВІДЕО)
On 29 October 2016, the regiment opened a football field with an artificial surface, which was built with the support of the Football Federation of Ukraine.В киевской военной части при участии ФФУ открыли футбольную площадку
On 7 May 2021, the regiment celebrated its foundation day and a chapel was opened and consecrated at the regiment's headquarters.Святкові заходи до Дня заснування військової частини А0799Митрополит ПЦУ освятив каплицю у військовій частині в Києві
On 23 August 2021, the regiment was awarded the honorary title "Hetman Mykhailo Doroshenko".УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ No.420/2021
At the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the widespread panic during the Battle of Kyiv, volunteers joined the regiment for partaking in combat. A group of 40 Regiment's personnel headed to the Regiment's base in a "Bohdan" minibus and two more personnel in a "Renault Kangoo". About 1.5 kilometer from the headquarters, the vehicles went onto the Povitroflotsky Bridge where Ukrainian soldiers in a friendly fire incident accidentally attacked them, wounding several and forcing them to take cover, the shooting continued for an hour, following which a soldier of the regiment (Mykhailo Diaghilev) tied a Ukrainian flag to his arm and came out of the bus to stop this shootout but was killed in the process."Як це – свої вбили своїх?" Чому полювання на ДРГ у Києві перетворилось на масовий "дружній вогонь"
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