💪The only place Russia has taken Mala Tokmachka is in its TV. That's exactly why it's now in Ukraine's Book of Records.
Mala Tokmachka has been officially recognised in the Book of Records of Ukraine as one of the longest-held defensive lines of the war.
The chairman of the Book of Records' supervisory board, Oleh Ivanenko, presented the command of the 118th Separate Mechanised Brigade with a diploma certifying the national record — for the unit's contribution to holding its defensive sector and repelling enemy attacks daily in the Mala Tokmachka area.
Ukraine's Defence Forces have held this direction continuously for over 1,500 days — under constant assaults, artillery shelling, airstrikes, and drone attacks.
That is more than four years. More than 1,500 consecutive days of a single Ukrainian-held village absorbing everything Russia could throw at it — and not breaking.
Mala Tokmachka is one of the key defensive nodes on the Zaporizhzhia direction. The village sits on the approaches to Orikhiv. Its capture would let Russian forces increase pressure on the town and open possibilities for further advance.
Russia knows this. That is why it has spent four years and an enormous quantity of men and equipment trying to take it — through mechanised column assaults, airstrikes, and relentless drone pressure.
It has not succeeded.
Over time, Mala Tokmachka has become something larger than a defensive position. It is a symbol of the entire exhausting nature of this war — a place where Russia's offensive ambitions meet Ukrainian endurance and stop.
So much so that Russian propaganda has "captured" the village many times — but only in its own reports. On the actual map, in the actual war, Mala Tokmachka remains exactly where it has been for over 1,500 days: under Ukrainian control.
This is the war the world rarely sees behind the headlines. Not dramatic breakthroughs, but the grinding daily refusal of Ukrainian soldiers to give up a single village — for four years, against everything, every single day.
A record certificate now hangs at the 118th Brigade's command. The men who earned it are still there, still holding, still repelling the attacks that come every day.
🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini.
— Source: 118th Separate Mechanised Brigade / ArmyInform, May 2026
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