On June 29, in response to the continuous massive firing on their positions, the Ukrainian army was forced to retaliate with two brief hits at the advance positions of the 7th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Army Corps of the Russian...
Nearly every veteran of the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) has had this experience: not long after they return from the ATO they encounter someone from the civilian population, or a non-veteran who works for the government or...
The actions of three signatories of the Budapest Memorandum, Russia by invading Ukraine and the US and UK by failing to come to its defense, means that Ukraine has no choice but to develop a modern army with contemporary weapons if it is...
Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Stepan Poltorak presented the 2015 military budget in the Verkhovna Rada on Friday, December 12, requesting UAH 50 billion — more than three times the current budget, reports BBC Ukraine. The...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko visited the Pivdenne Design Bureau and the Machine-Building Plant Pivdenmash during a working trip to Dnipropetrovsk on October 21, 2014. The President held a meeting on the problems, prospects and...
Former Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces officials undermined Ukraine’s defense capabilities, stated the head Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios. He reported that only within the last four years, over 600 amendments to...
Former Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces officials undermined Ukraine’s defense capabilities, stated the head Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios. He reported that only within the last four years, over 600 amendments to...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addressed a joint session of Congress, met with Secretary of State John Kerry and later with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on September 18, 2014. He requested help in arming his troops to...
Outrage at the widespread corruption in Ukraine was one of the reasons for Maidan protests last winter. Looks like eradicating it will be a long battle. Now that the country is at war, the plague of corruption has fallen upon the shoulders...
The Ukrainian Armed Forces will overhaul their aircraft fleet. By the end of the year, the military will have received 28 aircraft, three helicopters and 43 engines costing UAH 426mn (around $ 32mn), the press service of...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
