A study on the history of the creation and use of Romanian armored units in the battles for Ukraine and Crimea. The work analyzes the chronology of the production of equipment, an unsuccessful attempt by the Romanians to form their own panzerwaffe and its consequences, which were clearly manifested already during the first battles on the Eastern Front. A number of assumptions have been put forward about the real combat potential of mechanized cavalry units, as well as improvised mobile groups created on their basis and playing a key role in the Crimean campaign of the Wehrmacht...