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The 1st Presidential Brigade of operational assignment named after Hetman Petro Doroshenko (1 BrOP, military unit 3027) is a unit of the National Guard of Ukraine of a new type with modern weapons, which is part of the Northern Operational Territorial Association. The brigade was formed in 2014 in the village of Novi Petrivtsi on the basis of the Bars special unit.

In January 2023, a part of the "Offensive Guard" was formed on the basis of the brigade, which received the name "Stormy", which stands for the disposal brigade of the Russian military.

On July 27, 2014, the 14th special purpose brigade of the Bars Air Force was reorganized into the 1st operational brigade of the NSU. Its equipment is radically different from what was before. It became the first National Guard brigade to receive heavily armoured vehicles and howitzer artillery.

Subsequently, the brigade took part in the liberation of Ukrainian cities and villages from terrorists during the anti-terrorist operation in the east of Ukraine.

During the battles for Ilovaisk, the fighters of the brigade held positions in the area of ​​the city of Komsomolsk.

Military personnel of the brigade maintained public order in the government quarter of Kyiv on August 31, 2015. On that day, opposition parties organized a rally under the walls of the Verkhovna Rada with the demand to prevent the adoption of amendments to the Constitution regarding the decentralization of power. After the vote, mass clashes began under the walls of the parliament. A grenade was thrown at the National Guardsmen, as a result of which more than 50 of them were wounded and four died.