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The structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is multifaceted.. President Volodymyr Zelensky with the senior leadership of the Ukrainian military in May 2019. In late 2010 the total personnel (including 41,000 civilian workers) was 200,000. [1]
Laws establishing regulations the personnel and technical basis for the military were passed in 1992, which included keeping the Soviet rank structure, with the exception of the rank of marshal, which was replaced with general of the army of Ukraine. It was planned that the restructuring of the entire Armed Forces would take place until 1995. [12]
Ukraine and NATO estimate that 2.5 million tons of conventional ammunition were left in Ukraine as the Soviet military withdrew, as well as more than 7 million rifles, pistols, mortars, and machine guns. The surplus weapons and ammunition were stored in over 180 military bases, including in bunkers, salt mines and in the open. [45]
The role of the Air Force is to protect the air space of Ukraine. The objectives are: obtaining operational air superiority, delivering air strikes against enemy units and facilities, covering troops against enemy air strikes, providing air support to the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Marine Corps and the Navy in wartime operations and peacetime exercises, disrupting enemy military movements on the ...
Before the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine the UGF's then two armored brigades were equipped with either T-64BV tanks, T-64BV mod 2017, or T-80BV tanks. After the invasion Ukraine was able to capture and repurpose large numbers of Russian tanks such as T-72B3M mod 2017, T-72B3, T-72B, T-80BVM, T-80, and T-90M .
The Sumy operational-tactical group has operational command of regional ground force units in Sumy, Poltava, Cherkasy, and parts of Kharkiv. [1] The tactical group includes territorial defense brigades, rifle battalions, and other units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces alongside units of the State Border Guard Service, National Police, special security services, and volunteer formations and ...
The International Center for Peacemaking and Security (Ukrainian: Міжнаро́дний центр миротво́рчості та безпе́ки, romanized: Mizhnarodnyi tsentr myrotvorchosti ta bezpeky), also known as the Yavoriv military base (Я́ворівський військовий поліго́н), [a] is a military training facility of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the ...
The Western and Southern Military Districts share borders with Ukraine and are directly involved in command and control of operations. Pre-2022 Russian military doctrine had specified that on the outbreak of war, armed forces from non-MOD services (like Rosgvardiya) would be placed under the General Staff.