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The SSO has the roles including various special forces-related duties such as direct action, special reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, sabotage and psychological warfare. They are not the only special forces units in Ukraine. The SSO was created in 2016, after various reforms of the Ukrainian Armed Forces due to failures in the war in Donbas.
73rd Naval Special Operations Center "Chieftain Antin Holovaty" or the Special Operations Center South (Unit А3199) is the naval spetsnaz component of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SSO) that specialized in amphibious reconnaissance to prepare for amphibious warfare operations, clandestine operation, defense against swimmer incursions, direct action against important strategic or ...
Ukraine inherited its special forces units from the remnants of the Soviet armed forces, GRU and KGB units. Ukraine now maintains its own Spetsnaz structure under the control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and under the Ministry of Defence, while the Security Service of Ukraine maintains its own Spetsnaz force, the Alpha group.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy replaced the commander of his special forces on Thursday, the second time in half a year that he has changed the head of the unit which operates in Moscow ...
The 3rd Separate Assault Brigade (Ukrainian: 3-тя окрема штурмова бригада, romanized: 3-tya okrema shturmova bryhada) is a brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces formed in 2022. [1] The brigade was established by a merger of the Azov SSO (Special Operations Forces) units that had been created by former Azov Battalion ...
If one man’s story encompassed all two years of Ukraine’s war you might expect it to have ended abruptly long ago. Captured, injured, but undeterred. One soldier’s life fighting for Ukraine
On December 29, 2019, four Ukrainian special forces were released from Russian captivity as a result of the prisoner exchange. Maj. Serhii Ivanchuk and Sgt. Ivan Deev from the 8th Separate Special Purpose Regiment had been in captivity since 2017; Sgt. Serhii Glondar and Jr.Sgt. Oleksandr Korinkov from the 3rd since 2015.
Ukrainian troops are now fighting to check the slow but gradual gains by Russia’s bigger and better-equipped army. After almost 30 months of war with Russia, Ukraine’s difficulties on the ...