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The Armed Forces of Ukraine [b] (AFU) [c] are the military forces 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 ...
The Joint Forces Command is the successor to the former Joint Operational Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is headed by the Joint Forces Commander, who reports directly to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and directs the Joint Forces in all domains of their application (land, air, sea, information).
After the start of the war in Donbas in April 2014 in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine embarked on a program to enlarge and modernise its armed forces. [4] [5] [6] Personnel in the Ukrainian Armed Forces overall climbed from 129,950 in March 2014 [7] to 204,000 active personnel in May 2015, [8] with 169,000 soldiers in the Ground Forces branch as of 2016.
Withdrawing from the town, to the northwest of Donetsk city, was “the only correct solution,” Ukraine’s commander of southern forces Oleksandr Tarnavskyi said in a Telegram post Friday ...
Ukraine (President: Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy) Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (Interior Minister: Ihor Klymenko) State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine: Serhii Deineko) [383] 1st Hart Brigade [384] 2nd Podilsk Detachment [385]
On 6 August 2024, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine as part of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast and clashed with the Russian Armed Forces and Russian border guard.
Ukraine's territorial lands is divided into defense zones according to upper-level administrative units (regions, cities of special status, and Autonomous Republic of Crimea), which in turn are subordinate to the relevant operational command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in whose area of responsibility these administrative units belong. [27]
These units were soon integrated into the Special Operations Forces (SSO) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and became collectively known as "Azov SSO". [2] [4] In January 2023, all the former Azov SSO were merged into a single fully operational combat unit within the Ukrainian Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.