Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A watan Agusta na shekarar 2014 raka'o'in brigade sun yi yaƙi a
Yaƙin Ilovaisk. A ranar 26 ga watan Agusta wani rukunin hadadden Brigade na 8 na Dutsen da na 31 na Brigade na Jirgin Sama ya yi kwanton bauna da wani rukunin mayakan makamai masu linzami na Ukraine na 51st Mechanized Brigade kusa da ƙauyen Mnohopillya. An kama sojoji biyu na Brigade na 31: Ruslan Akhmetov da Arseniy Ilmitov. A lokacin da ake kokarin ceto, an yi wa wani rukunin Brigade na 31 kwanton bauna. Nikolai Kozlov, wani ɗan wasan parachute wanda ya halarci karɓar ginin Majalisar Crimea a watan Fabrairu, ya rasa ƙafa a cikin kwanton bauna. Bayan da kafofin watsa labarai na Rasha "RBK" suka wallafa wani bincike inda aka ɗauka cewa an kashe Akhmetov da Ilmitov a yakin Ilovaisk, sanannen kafofin watsa labarai na "Lifenews" ya yi rahoton TV, inda ya ziyarci garkuwar brigade a Ulyanovsk kuma ya yi magana da duka Akhmetov da Ilmitov suna tabbatar da cewa suna da rai kuma suna aiki ne na sojojin Rasha.