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By order of the [[National Guard of Ukraine|National Guard]] on January 2, 1992, on the basis of the personnel of the 290th independent motorized rifle Novorossiysk Red Banner Lenin Komsomol special operational-purpose regiment of the [[Internal Troops|Internal Troops of the MVD of the USSR]], the brigade was formed as the 1st National Guard Infantry Regiment (military unit 4101) in Kyiv, in the 1st (Kyiv) Operational Division of the National Guard (military unit 2210).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Окрема президентська бригада імені гетьмана Богдана Хмельницького |url=https://www.facebook.com/Prezydentska.Bryhada |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=www.facebook.com |language=en}}</ref> In 1995, the regiment was reflagged as an infantry brigade.
 
The 24th independent brigade of the NGU was renamed the 24th National Guard Special Purpose Brigade by order of the KNGU on December 24, 1998.<ref name=":1" /> By Decree of the President of Ukraine dated October 30, 1999, the 24th Brigade was awarded the honorary title "[[Kyiv]]" for the merits of personnel in tasks ensuring public order in Ukraine's capital.{{cn|date=June 2024}}
 
The 24th separate Kyiv brigade of special purpose [[National Guard of Ukraine]] was transferred to the [[Armed Forces of Ukraine]] by Decree of the President of Ukraine on December 17, 1999<ref name=":2" /> while the National Guard itself would later be disbanded under Ukrainian law on January 11, 2000.<ref name=":0" /> The headquarters of the 24th separate Kyiv brigade were converted into the headquarters of the president of Ukraine's Independent Novorossiysk-Kyiv Order of the Red Banner Special Purpose Infantry Regiment (MU A0222) - attached to the [[Ukrainian Ground Forces]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-25 |title=Президентський полк ЗСУ - тепер імені Богдана Хмельницького – Український Інтерес |url=http://uain.press/politics/prezydent-s-kyy-polk-zsu-teper-imeni-bohdana-khmel-nyts-koho-625424 |access-date=2023-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225130845/http://uain.press/politics/prezydent-s-kyy-polk-zsu-teper-imeni-bohdana-khmel-nyts-koho-625424 |archive-date=2017-12-25 }}</ref> The 2nd and 17th independent battalions of special purpose [[National Guard of Ukraine]] were merged into this formation's linear battalions of special purpose, and the 3rd separate battalion of special purpose [[National Guard of Ukraine]] was disbanded.{{cn|date=June 2024}} The 27th special battalion of special purpose NGU was transferred to the Internal Troops of Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs and became a linear battalion of the 10th Special Motorized Regiment of Internal Troops of Ukraine.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2017-12-25 |title=Присвоєння Київському полку Президента почесного найменування | publisher=[[:ru:5 канал]] |url=https://www.5.ua/kyiv/prysvoiennia-okremomu-kyivskomu-polku-prezydenta-ukrainy-pochesnoho-naimenuvannia-transliatsiia-161287.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225131842/https://www.5.ua/kyiv/prysvoiennia-okremomu-kyivskomu-polku-prezydenta-ukrainy-pochesnoho-naimenuvannia-transliatsiia-161287.html |archive-date=2017-12-25 |url-status=dead |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=www.5.ua}}</ref>
 
To commemorate Ukraine's tenth anniversary of independence, the [[Kyiv Presidential Honor Guard Battalion]] was incorporated into the regimental [[Order of battle|Order of Battle]] as the new 3rd Battalion in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Головна |url=https://koda.gov.ua/ |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Київська обласна військова адміністрація |language=uk}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=June 2024}} The regiment's name was changed to the Independent Kyiv Regiment of the President of Ukraine by Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 646/2015 in 2015, and it was removed from the Order of the Red Banner.<ref>{{cite web |author= |date=2015-11-18 |title=Указ Президента України №646/2015 "Про внесення змін до Указу Президента України від 30 жовтня 2000 року № 1173" |url=http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/6462015-19568 |access-date=2017-07-14 |website=www.president.gov.ua |publisher=[[:ru:Адміністрація Президента України]]}}</ref> On December 15, 2017, President [[Petro Poroshenko]] bestowed the honorific "Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky" on the regiment and presented its new regimental battle colors in a [[Presentation of Colours]] ceremony, giving the regiment its full name of ''Independent Presidential Regiment "Hetman [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky|Bohdan Khmelnytskyi]]"''.<ref>{{cite web |author= |date=2017-12-15 |title=Присвоєння окремому Київському полку Президента України почесного найменування |url=https://www.5.ua/kyiv/prysvoiennia-okremomu-kyivskomu-polku-prezydenta-ukrainy-pochesnoho-naimenuvannia-transliatsiia-161287.html |access-date=2017-12-15 |website=www.5.ua |publisher=[[:ru:5 канал]]}}</ref> The ceremony took place on the centennial anniversary of the [[Manifesto to the Ukrainian people with ultimate demands to the Ukrainian Rada|Council of People's Commissars and the People's Secretariat's ultimatum]] to the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which signaled the start of the [[Ukrainian War of Independence|Soviet war in Ukraine]] in 1917,<ref>{{cite web |author= |date=2017-12-15 |title=Указ Президента України №419/2017 від 15 грудня 2017 року "Про присвоєння почесного найменування Окремому Київському полку Президента України" |url=http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/4192017-23262 |access-date=2017-12-15 |website=www.president.gov.ua/ |publisher=[[:ru:Адміністрація Президента України]]}}</ref> and marked the end of the regiment's [[silver jubilee]].
 
On [[Independence Day of Ukraine|Independence Day]] 2018, a copy of the regimental [[Military colours, standards and guidons|guidon]] of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Regiment "Bohdan Khmelnytsky", [[1st Ukrainian Corps]] (which fought in the [[Ukrainian War of Independence]] and was the first ever infantry regiment established in the [[Ukrainian People's Army]] at that time) was paraded by the regiment's Honor Guard Battalion, confirming the regiment's inheritance of the lineage and traditions of said regiment.{{cn|date=June 2024}}
 
To commemorate its 30th anniversary, the regiment was upgraded once more to a full brigade in 2022. As a result, two new battalions were added to the brigade's expanded order of battle, joined by a growing number of further battalions in the months following. The new raisings have made the brigade one of the largest in the [[Ukrainian Ground Forces|Ukrainian Ground Forces.]]