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The Armed Forces of Ukraine were formed from portions of the military of the collapsing Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
, in the early 1990s.

Ukraine's stated national policy is Euro-Atlantic

Atlanticism

Atlanticism is a philosophy of cooperation among Western European and North American nations regarding political, economic, and defense issues, with the purpose to maintain the security of the participating countries, and to protect the values that unite them: "democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law." One who shares the idea of A...
integration, with both NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization , also called the Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949....
and the European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. Ukraine has a "Distinctive Partnership" with NATO and has been an active participant in Partnership for Peace

Partnership for Peace

Partnership for Peace is a NATO program aimed at creating trust between NATO and other states in Europe and the former Soviet Union; 23 nations are members....
exercises and in peacekeeping in the Balkans. This close relationship with NATO has been most apparent in Ukrainian cooperation and combined peacekeeping operation with its neighbor Poland, in Kosovo.

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The Armed Forces of Ukraine were formed from portions of the military of the collapsing Soviet Union

Soviet Union

Atlanticism

NATO

European Union

Partnership for Peace

Operation Active Endeavour

Operation Active Endeavour is a Navy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It operates in the Mediterranean Sea and is designed to prevent the movement of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction as well as to enhance the security of shipping in general....
. However, the continuing relationship with Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
complicates these linkages.

The current Chief of the General Staff

Chief of the General Staff (Ukraine)

The Chief of the General Staff is the Chief of the General Staff of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He is appointed by the President of Ukraine....
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is General of Army of Ukraine

General of Army of Ukraine

General of Army of Ukraine is a 4 star rank general officer and is the highest possible rank in the Military of Ukraine. General of Army of Ukraine ranks immediately above a Colonel General and has no equivalent Navy rank....
Sergiy Kirichenko.

History

As the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
dissolved in 1990 and 1991, 780,000 Soviet military personnel remained located in Ukraine

Ukraine

Military district

Military districts are formation s of a state's armed forces which are responsible for a certain area of territory. They are often more responsible for administrative than operational matters, and in countries with conscript forces, often handle parts of the conscription cycle....
s. This mass was not an army but a force grouping, without a national Ministry of Defence, a General Staff

General Staff

A military staff is a group of officers and enlisted personnel that provides a bi-directional flow of information between a Officer and subordinate military units....
or central organs of command and control. 'This grouping, its inventory of equipment and its officer corps were designed for one purpose: to wage combined arms, coalition, offensive (and nuclear) warfare against NATO on an external front.' At that time, the armed forces of Ukraine included land force formations, one rocket army, four Air Force

Air force

An air force, also known in some countries as an air army or historically an army air corps , is in the broadest sense, the national armed force or armed service that primarily conducts aerial warfare....
armies, a separate air defense army, and the Black Sea Fleet

Black Sea Fleet

The Black Sea Fleet is a large sub-unit of the Russian Russian Navy, operating in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea since the late 18th century....
. Altogether, when established, the Armed Forces of Ukraine included more than 350 ships

Warship

A warship is a ship that is built and primarily intended for combat. Warships are usually built in a completely different way than cargo ship....
, 1500 combat aircraft, and 1272 strategic nuclear war-heads of intercontinental ballistic missiles. On August 24, 1991, the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada

Verkhovna Rada

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is Ukraine's parliament. The Verkhovna Rada is a unicameral parliament composed of 450 deputies, which is presided over by a Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada ....
, enacted a resolution to take jurisdiction over all formations of the armed forces of the former Soviet Union stationed on Ukrainian soil, and to establish one of the key agencies, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence (Ukraine)

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine was established on September 24, 1991, one month after Act of Independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union....
.

Inherent in the process of creating a domestic military were political decisions by the Ukrainian leadership regarding the country's non-nuclear and international status. Included in this was the definition, agreement and ratification of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

The original Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe was negotiated and concluded during the last years of the Cold War and established comprehensive limits on key categories of conventional military equipment in Europe and mandated the destruction of excess weaponry....
(CFE) which not only established the maximum level of armament for each republic of the former USSR, but also a special ceiling for the so-called CFE "Flank Region". Included in the region were Ukraine's Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of Ukraine. The capital city of the oblast is the city of Mykolayiv....
, Kherson

Kherson Oblast

Kherson Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine in southern Ukraine, just north of Crimea. Its capital city is Kherson. The area of the region is 29000 km?, its population is 1.12 million....
, Zaporizhia Oblast

Zaporizhia Oblast

Zaporizhia Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of southern Ukraine. Its capital city is Zaporizhia.This oblast is an important part of Ukraine's industry and agriculture....
s, and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Also key for the creation of a Ukrainian military was the 1992 Tashkent Treaty

Collective Security Treaty Organization

On October 7, 2002, the Presidents of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, signed a charter in Chisinau, founding the Collective Security Treaty Organization or simply ??????????? ??????? ....
, which laid out aspirations for a CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

The Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics.The CIS is comparable to a confederation similar to the original European Community....
military that would prove impossible to develop because the former republics of the USSR all wished to go their own way, ripping the intricate Soviet military machine into pieces.

The military and security forces, including the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a number of independent "militarized institutions" (paramilitary

Paramilitary

A paramilitary is a force whose function and organisation are similar to those of a professional military force, but which is not regarded as having the same status....
forces) are under the command of the President of Ukraine

President of Ukraine

The President of Ukraine is the head of state of Ukraine, representing the country and government as a whole in foreign affairs. The President is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and heads the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, advising the President on the national security policy of domestic and int...
, and subject to oversight by a permanent parliamentary

Verkhovna Rada

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is Ukraine's parliament. The Verkhovna Rada is a unicameral parliament composed of 450 deputies, which is presided over by a Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada ....
commission. The Ukrainian military tactics and organization are heavily dependent on Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
tactics, and former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
organization. Ukraine has however been pursuing a policy of independence from Russian dominance, and have taken steps towards closer ties with the West. However, Ukraine retains tight military relations with Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, mostly inherited from the common Soviet history. Common use of naval bases in Crimean and joint air defense efforts are the most intense branches of such cooperation. This cooperation is a permanent irritant in bilateral relations. But the country is unable to drop such ties quickly, being economically dependent on Moscow.

Plagued at times by hostile relations with Russia following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has been steadfastly trying to develop its own independent military industry. Notable results of this effort are the Ukrainian-built T-84

T-84

The T-84 is a Ukraine main battle tank, a development of the Soviet T-80 main battle tank. It was first built in 1994 and entered service in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1999....
main battle tank, currently in service, and the aircraft manufacturer Antonov

Antonov

Antonov, or Antonov Aeronautical Scientific/Technical Complex , formerly the Antonov Design Bureau, is a Ukraine-based aircraft manufacturing and services company with particular expertise in the field of very large aircraft construction....
. Ukraine received about 30% of the Soviet military industry, which included between 50 and 60 percent of all Ukrainian enterprises

Company

Generally, a company is a form of business organization. The precise definition varies.In the United States, a company is a corporation—or, less commonly, an association, partnership, or union—that carries on an industrial enterprise." Generally, a company may be a "corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company, Inv...
, which employed 40% of its working population. Ukraine was, and still remains, a leader in missile-related technology

Missile

A guided missile is a self-propelled projectile used as a weapon. Missiles are typically propelled by rockets or jet engines. Missiles generally have one or more explosive warheads, although other weapon types may also be used....
. Especially navigation

Navigation

Navigation is the process of reading, and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. It is also the term of art used for the specialized knowledge used by navigators to perform navigation tasks....
electronics for combat vessels and submarine

Submarine

A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below water. It differs from a submersible, which has only limited underwater capability....
s, guidance system

Guidance system

A guidance system is a device or group of devices used to navigation a ship, aircraft, missile, rocket, satellite, or other craft. Typically, this refers to a system that navigates without direct or continuous human control....
s, and radar

Radar

Radar is a system that uses electromagnetic radiation waves to identify the range, altitude, direction, or speed of both moving and fixed objects such as aircraft, ships, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain....
for military jets

Jet aircraft

A jet aircraft is an aircraft propelled by jet engines. Jet aircraft fly much faster than propeller-powered aircraft and at higher altitudes -- as high as 10,000 to 15,000 meters ....
. Tough competition in the world's weapons market obliged Ukraine to consider exporting arms to politically unstable or even aggressive regime

Regime

The word regime refers to a set of conditions, most often of a political nature. It may also be used synonymously with "wiktionary:regimen", for example in the phrases "exercise regime" or "medical regime"....
s. Ukraine build its own connections in arms exporting. The first contracts on weapons deliveries to Iran, signed in the middle of 1992, and caused negative reaction in the West

Western Europe

Western Europe refers to the countries in the western most half of Europe. This concept has had different meanings, political and cultural as well as geographical issues have influenced the area....
(particularly in the US).

Organization

The Ukrainian armed forces are largely made up of conscripts. The total personnel (including 43,000 civilian workers) numbers at the end of 2008 will be 191,000. In July 2008, there were 149,000 military personnel. The branch structure is as follows:

Ukrainian Ground Forces
Ukrainian Ground Forces

The Ukraineian Ground Forces are the land force component of the Military of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Army formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts , that were on Ukrainian soil when the History of the Soviet Union #Dissolution of the USSR in 1990-92....
: 74,379 personnel (2 Armored Brigades, 8 mechanized brigades, 2 airmobile brigades, 1 airborne brigade, 3 artillery brigades, 1 rocket artillery brigade and various combat support formations)
Ukrainian Air Force
Ukrainian Air Force

The Ukrainian Air Force is a part of the Military of Ukraine. Ukraine Air Force Command and headquarters are located in the city of Vinnytsia....
: 47,900 personnel
Ukrainian Navy
Ukrainian Navy

The Ukrainian Naval Force is the navy of Ukraine and part of the Military of Ukraine. It was established in 1992. It consists of 5 branches: surface forces, submarine forces, Ukrainian Naval Aviation, coast rocket-artillery and Marine Corps ....
: 15,470 personnel (16 combat ships, 8 ASW
Anti-submarine warfare

Anti-submarine warfare is a branch of naval warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, or other submarines to find, track and then damage or destroy enemy submarines....
helicopters, 4 ASW airplanes)

On November 26, 1997 Ukraine and Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
signed an Agreement on the formation of a Joint Peacekeeping Battalion, which became fully operational in 1999 in the Kosovo Conflict.

Arms Control and Disarmament

Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited two divisions of the Strategic Rocket Forces

Strategic Rocket Forces

The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or RVSN RF are an arm of service of the Russian armed forces that controls Russia's land-based ICBMs....
' 43rd Rocket Army (HQ Vinnitsa), the 19th Rocket Division (Khemilnitskiy) (90? UR-100N

UR-100N

The UR-100N is an intercontinental ballistic missile in service with Russia. The missile was given the NATO reporting name SS-19 Stiletto and carries the industry designation 15A30....
/SS-19/RS-18) and the 46th Rocket Division at Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast

Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast

Pervomaisk is a city in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine and the center of the Pervomaiskyi Raion. It is located on the Southern Bug river which bisects the city....
, equipped with 40 SS-19, and 46 silo-mounted RT-23 Molodets

RT-23 Molodets

RT-23 is a Soviet Union ICBM, developed and produced by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau before 1991. It is cold launched, and comes in missile silo and railway car based variants....
/SS-24s. Ukraine voluntarily gave up these and its other nuclear weapons during the early 1990s. This was the first time in human history that a country voluntarily gave up the use of strategic nuclear weapons, though the Republic of South Africa was destroying its small tactical nuclear weapons program at about the same time.

Ukraine has plentiful amounts of highly enriched uranium

Enriched uranium

Enriched uranium is a kind of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 has been increased through the process of isotope separation....
, which the United States wanted to buy from the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology. Ukraine also has two uranium

Uranium

Uranium is a silvery-gray metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the chemical symbol U and atomic number 92....
mining and processing factories, a heavy water plant

Heavy water

Heavy water is water that contains a higher proportion than normal of the isotope deuterium, as deuterium oxide, D2O or ?H2O, or as deuterium protium oxide, HDO or ?H?HO....
, a technology for making electronic to determine the isotopic

Isotope

Isotopes are any of the different types of atoms of the same chemical element, each having a different atomic mass . Isotopes of an element have atomic nucleus with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutron....
composition of fissionable

Nuclear fission

In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction in which the atomic nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts, often producing free neutrons and lighter atomic nucleus, which may eventually produce photons ....
materials. Ukraine has deposits of uranium that are among the world’s richest. In May 1992, Ukraine signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in which the country agreed to give up all nuclear weapon

Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either nuclear fission or a combination of fission and nuclear fusion....
s, and to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is a treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, opened for signature on July 1, 1968....
as a non-nuclear weapon state. Ukraine ratified the treaty in 1994, and as of January 1, 1996, no military nuclear equipment or materials remained on Ukrainian territory.

On 13 May 1994, the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
and Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the Transfer of Missile Equipment and Technology. This agreement committed Ukraine to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) by controlling exports of missile

Missile

Recent operations

Ukraine has been playing an increasingly larger role in peacekeeping operations. Since 1992, over 30,000 soldiers took part in missions in former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
, Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
, Eastern Slavonia

Eastern Slavonia

Eastern Slavonia is a geographical region of Slavonia in east Croatia. Its borders are defined by the Drava, Danube and Sava rivers. The major cities of the area are Osijek, Vinkovci, Vukovar and ?akovo ....
, Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a disputed region in the Balkans. Its majority is governed by the partially-recognised Republic of Kosovo . Serbia does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and considers it a United Nations-governed entity within its sovereign territory, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija that was re-created by Slobodan M...
), Middle East (Southern Lebanon

Southern Lebanon

Southern Lebanon is the geographical area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. These two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s....
, Kuwait

Kuwait

The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west....
, Iraq

Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
), African Continent (Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean....
, Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea in the northeast, Liberia in the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest....
, Liberia

Liberia

Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, C?te d'Ivoire, and the Atlantic Ocean....
).

Since 1997, Ukraine has been closely working with NATO, and especially Poland. A Ukrainian unit was deployed in Iraq

Iraq

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
command. Ukrainian troops are also deployed as part of the Ukrainian-Polish Battalion (UKRPOLBAT)

Polish-Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion

Polish-Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion or POLUKRBAT is a Poland-Ukraine peacekeeping battalion, formed in the late 1990s expressly "for participation in international peace-keeping and humanitarian operations under the auspices of international organizations"....
in Kosovo. The total Ukrainian military deployment around the world as of May 28, 2008 is 570 servicemen participating in 11 peacekeeping missions in 9 countries.

The first battle of a regular formation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces happened on April 6, 2004 in Kut

Kut

Al-Kut is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 100 miles south east of Baghdad. the estimated population is about 374,000 people....
, Iraq

Iraq

Mahdi Army

This page describes the Shia Mahdi Army of contemporary Iraq; for the Sunni Mahdi Army of Nineteenth Century Sudan, see Muhammad Ahmad.The Mahdi Army, also known as the Mahdi Militia or Jaish al Mahdi , is an Iraqi paramilitary force created by the Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003....
. The Ukrainians took fire, and over several hours held the objectives they had been assigned to secure.

Deployment outside Ukraine

Deployments as of November 2008:

ISAF

International Security Assistance Force

International Security Assistance Force is a NATO-led security and development mission in Afghanistan established by the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001 as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement ....
(PRT CHAGHCHARAN) - 10 Officers (3 medical officers)

(MONUC

United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo

MONUC, a French language acronym for Mission de lOrganisation des Nations Unies en R?publique d?mocratique du Congo , is a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which was established on February 24, 2000, by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1291 of the United Nations...
) - 2 Police, 13 Military Observers

(UNMIT) - 2 Police

(UNOMIG

United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia

The United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia was established by the United Nations Security Council in August 1993 to verify compliance with a 27 July 1993 ceasefire agreement between the Republic of Georgia and forces in Abkhazia with special attention given to the situation in the city of Sukhumi, Georgia....
) - 5 Military Observers

- 37 (29 commissioned officers, 8 non-commissioned officers)

Kosovo

United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo

The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo or UNMIK is the interim civilian administration in Kosovo, under the authority of the United Nations....
) - 4 Liaison officers

(UNMIL

United Nations Mission in Liberia

The United Nations Mission in Liberia is a peace-keeping force established in September 2003 to monitor a ceasefire agreement in Liberia following the resignation of President Charles G....
) - 302 Troops, 14 Police, 3 Military Observers

(Transnistria

Transnistria

Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniester, Transdniestria, and Pridnestrovie is a disputed region in southeast Europe. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, followed by the War of Transnistria in 1992, it is governed by the Unrecognized states Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic , which claims the left bank...
) - 10 Military Observers

(UNMIS

United Nations Mission in Sudan

The United Nations Mission in the Sudan was established by the UN Security Council under UN Security Council Resolution 1590 of 24 March 2005, in response to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the government of the Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement on January 9, 2005 in Nairobi, Kenya....
) - 14 Police, 13 Military Observers

Other militarized institutions of Ukraine

Ukraine's militarized institutions independent from Armed Forces of Ukraine include:

Internal Troops
Internal Troops of Ukraine

The Internal Troops of Ukraine is the uniformed gendarmerie-like force in Ukraine. Internal Troops are subordinated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and is used to deal with large-scale crowd controls, internal armed conflicts and to safeguard important facilities such as nuclear power plants....
(Ministry of Internal Affairs): 33,300 (including 600 civilian workers)
Motorized military troops of Militsiya (Ministry of Internal Affairs)
Border Guard
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine

State Border Guard Service of Ukraine is the border guard of Ukraine. It is an independent agency subordinated to the President of Ukraine.During wartime, units of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine fall under the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine....
: 50,000 (including 8,000 civilian workers)

Ukrainian Sea Guard
Ukrainian Sea Guard

Ukrainian Sea Guard is the coast guard service of Ukraine, subordinated to its State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.Sea Guard vessels bear the ??????? ??????? inscription on their boards....
— the coast guard
Coast guard

A coast guard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries....
within the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine

Various military troops of the SBU
Security Service of Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine is Ukraine's main government security agency.The SBU is responsible for state security , counterintelligence , fighting terrorism, smuggling, illegal trading of Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive and personal security of the President, Verkhovna Rada , other important figures and institutions ....
(no generic name)
Civil Defence Forces (Ministry of Emergency Situations): 10,218 (including 668 civilian workers)
Special Transportation Service of Ukraine — (Ministry of Transportation and Communications)

Although not the parts of Armed Forces, these militarized institutions are supposed to fall under Armed Forces' command during war

War

...
time.

Military Holidays

These are the professional military holidays of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

February 23 - The Defender

Defender of the Fatherland Day

File:Vladimir Putin 23 February 2008-2.jpgDefender of the Fatherland Day is a holiday observed in Russia, Ukraine and several other former Soviet republics....
Day
July 8 - The Air Defence Day
August 1 - The Navy

Ukrainian Navy

The Ukrainian Naval Force is the navy of Ukraine and part of the Military of Ukraine. It was established in 1992. It consists of 5 branches: surface forces, submarine forces, Ukrainian Naval Aviation, coast rocket-artillery and Marine Corps ....
Day
August 2 - The Airmobile Forces

Ukrainian Airmobile Forces

The airmobile force is a highly mobile component of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.The airmobile forces consist of formations, units and elements of the Army and the Army aviation, which are well trained for combined activities behind the enemy lines....
Day
August 8 - The Signal troops Day
September 7 - The Day of Military Intelligence

Chief directorate of intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Chief directorate of intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine or ??? , is Ukraine's military intelligence service. It is a subdivision of Ministry of Defense , and one of the successors of the Soviet GRU....

September 9 - The Day of Armour

Armored Force (Ukraine)

Armored Force along with Mechanized Infantry form the basis of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. They execute tasks of holding the occupied areas, lines and positions tasks of enemy?s impacts repelling, of penetrating enemy?s defense lines, of defeating the enemy forces, of capturing the important areas, lines and objects, operate in structure o...

September 14 - The mobilization serviceman Day
October 29 - The Day of finance officers
November 3 - The Rocket Forces and Artillery

Rocket Forces and Artillery (Ukraine)

Rocket Forces and Artillery of the Ukrainian Ground Forces consist of units armed with tactical missiles, howitzers, cannons, mortars, jet-propelled and anti-tank artillery....
Day
November 3 - The Day of Engineers
December 6 - The Armed Forces

Military of Ukraine

The Armed Forces of Ukraine were formed from portions of the Military of the Soviet Union of the collapsing Soviet Union, in the early 1990s....
Day
December 12 - The Day of Ground Forces

Ukrainian Ground Forces

The Ukraineian Ground Forces are the land force component of the Military of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Army formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts , that were on Ukrainian soil when the History of the Soviet Union #Dissolution of the USSR in 1990-92....

December 23 - The Day of all level operational control structures servicemen.

External links

Official Website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense: and /
- Ministry of Defense' Army of Ukraine magazine
Ukraine Defence White Book:
(a project of Ukrainian "Center for Army Conversion and Disarmament Studies" NGO; subscription needed for most of the material)
(including info on insignia and military museums)

Information on Ukrainian army resources (both human and weapons).

from http://www.uniforminsignia.net

Military of Ukraine

History

Organization

Arms Control and Disarmament

Recent operations

Deployment outside Ukraine

Other militarized institutions of Ukraine

Military Holidays

See also

External links

Further Reading