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A map showing Ukraine Defense Contact Group members and others providing military aid to Ukraine. The Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG, also known as the Ramstein group [1] [2]) is an alliance of 57 countries (all 32 member states of NATO and 25 other countries) and the European Union supporting the defence of Ukraine by sending military equipment in response to the 2022 Russian invasion. [3]
The Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) is a branch of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that specializes in drone warfare and the use of unmanned military robots on land, sea, and air. [115][116] The USF was created in the midst of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, and was formally established on 11 June 2024. [117]
The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство оборони України, romanized: Ministerstvo oborony Ukrainy) is the ministry of the Ukrainian government that oversees national defence and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The head of the ministry is the Minister of Defence. The President of Ukraine is the Supreme ...
5 October 2004 – 10 February 2005 Dmytro Rudkovskyi (governor of the office of Ministry of Defence) 6 October 2004 – 25 February 2005 Oleksandr Stetsenko. 26 October 2004 – 25 February 2005 Volodymyr Bilyi (humanitarian policy and relations with parliament) 19 February 2005 – 23 January 2008 Leonid Polyakov.
Kyrylo Oleksiiovych Budanov (Ukrainian: Кирило Олексійович Буданов; born 4 January 1986) is a Ukrainian military leader who has served as the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine since August 2020. [ 1 ] Budanov previously served as the deputy director of one of the ...
The International Legion Defence of Ukraine, [note 1] or the Ukrainian Foreign Legion, [9] is a military unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces composed of foreign volunteers. It was created on 27 February 2022 by the Ukrainian government at the request of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fight against the Russian invasion of the country. [10]
On 13 August, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov claimed that Ukraine was the most "heavily mined country in the world", with soldiers encountering up to five mines per square metre in some parts of the front and shortages in equipment and personnel trained as sappers to remove the mines. Those existing trained personnel and equipment ...
The Commander-in-Chief for Armed Forces of Ukraine directs the Armed Forces of Ukraine, monitors the state of the army with military equipment, weapons, and other resources, reports to the President and the Minister of Defense on achieving military-strategic goals in defense. The Law of Ukraine "On the Armed Forces of Ukraine" also stipulates ...