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Military expert Justin Crump told Sky News that Ukrainian forces had been focusing on taking the eastern town of Lyman in a bid to discredit the referenda that had taken place days before. On ...
June 11, 2024 at 8:33 AM. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. has lifted a ban on providing American weapons and training to a controversial Ukrainian military unit that was key to the defense of the ...
Ukraine pushes back on ‘fluid’ frontline. 13:30, Athena Stavrou. Ukrainian troops are trying to push back Russian forces along the Dnipro River along what the military described as a “fairly ...
A U.S. review found no evidence of human rights violations by Ukraine's Azov Brigade, paving the way for it to use American training and weapons, the State Department said on Tuesday, citing ...
The Ukrainian Defence Ministry is responsible for the management of territorial defence, military development, mobilization in the case of war and combat readiness. The General Staff of Ukraine has the task of planning defensive and operational management of the armed forces. The General Staff is assistant to the Defence Minister of Ukraine.
All military and security forces, including the Armed Forces, are under the command of the President of Ukraine and subject to oversight by a permanent Verkhovna Rada parliamentary commission. They trace their lineage to 1917, while the modern armed forces were formed after Ukrainian independence in 1991.
In January 2015, Operational Command East was established with control over forces in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. These areas were previously controlled by Operation Command South. [3] The command at the time was led by Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev. [6] Units under the operational control of OC East ...
The structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is multifaceted. In late 2010 the total personnel (including 41,000 civilian workers) was 200,000. [1] Conscription was ended in October 2013; [2] at that time the Ukrainian armed forces were made up of 40% conscripts and 60% contract soldiers. [2] In April 2014 acting President Oleksandr Turchynov ...