"Enemy helicopters were constantly attacked our positions in the Izium direction. They were dropping missiles. Two helicopters took off again. One of them was shot down," explained Ukrainian fighter.

In honor of the centennial year of the Ukrainian War of Independence the brigade received its second honorific title, Kholodnyi Yar (Kholodnyi Yar was a pro-Ukrainian partisan self-proclaimed state that existed from 1919 to 1922).