The 64th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade (military unit 51460) from Khabarovsk Krai is a unit whose servicemen are accused of mass killings and torture of civilians in Bucha in March 2022; despite this, the President of the Russian Federation awarded the brigade an honorary title just two and a half weeks after the crimes became known worldwide.





The 64th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade was formed in 2009 from the 882nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 270th Motorized Rifle Division; it is part of the 35th Army (Vostok group). At the beginning of the Special Military Operation (SMO), units of the brigade, as part of armored groups, made a forced march from Belarus, blocked the E40 Kyiv-Zhytomyr highway, and then advanced to assist the airborne assault of the 45th Separate Special Purpose Brigade near Hostomel. The brigade occupied the Bucha area, where, according to Ukrainian investigations and journalistic inquiries, civilians, including entire families, were killed by servicemen during 18 days of occupation; a mass grave and bodies of people with bound hands were discovered. On April 4, 2022, Ukrainian military intelligence publicly named servicemen of the 64th Brigade as involved in the crimes in Bucha. On April 18, 2022, the President of the Russian Federation awarded the brigade an honorary title by decree No. 215 — a decision widely criticized as an award for war crimes. One of the brigade's soldiers subsequently sought asylum in Spain. Omurbekov himself later received the title Hero of Russia and was promoted to Major General.
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