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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Генеральний штаб Збройних сил України) is the military staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is the central organ of the Armed Forces Administration and oversees operational management of the armed forces under the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine .
In 1996 it was changed to Chief of the General Staff. In 2002 as part of military reform, the post was separated from the civil service and lost its ministerial deputy functions. In 2005 Chief of the General Staff was reaffirmed as the primary commander of the Armed Forces in the country and was granted a parallel post of Commander-in-Chief. In ...
The Law of Ukraine "On the Armed Forces of Ukraine" also stipulates that direct military leadership is an activity aimed at implementing measures for the development of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, their technical equipment, training, and comprehensive support, and determining the basis of their application and management. [2]
The general, who does not often speak in public, is highly respected in the military and among ordinary Ukrainians. A poll conducted in December by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology ...
Viktor Oleksandrovych Khorenko (Ukrainian: Хоренко Віктор Олександрович) is a Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He commanded Ukraine's Special Operations Forces during the Russian-Ukrainian War from 25 July 2022 until his dismissal on 3 November 2023. [2] [3]
Since 12 January 2023, Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov was appointed as commander of military operations in Ukraine, with Surovikin as his deputy. [ 18 ] The actual operational chain of command of the Russian military effort in Ukraine is not public, changes, and is a mix of state and non-state bodies.
Their deployment could — at least initially — be limited to curtailing Russia's advance in its Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops seized territory earlier this year. Ukraine fired six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at Russia’s Bryansk region, Moscow said Tuesday, in what would be Kyiv’s first use of the weapon inside Russia.
Ukraine's troops have been forced to make a tactical retreat from three villages in the embattled east, the country's army chief said Sunday, warning of a worsening battlefield situation as ...