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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 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 ...
The Ukrainian Defence Ministry is responsible for the management of territorial defence, military development, mobilization in the case of war and combat readiness. The General Staff of Ukraine has the task of planning defensive and operational management of the armed forces. The General Staff is assistant to the Defence Minister of Ukraine.
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 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 28 March 2020 the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was separated from that of the Chief of the General Staff. The current Chief of the General Staff is Anatoliy Barhylevych, [1] and the Commander-in-Chief is Oleksandr Syrskyi. The General Staff was created in 1991–92 on the basis of the Kyiv Military District ...
The current Minister of Defense is Rustem Umierov who was sworn in by the Verkhovna Rada on 6 September. [42] The longest-serving Minister of Defense is Oleksandr Kuzmuk who served for a total of 2,063 days. The longest serving as an acting Minister of Defense is Valeriy Ivashchenko who served for a total 279 days (over 9 months).
By 2005 only 876 soldiers, or roughly half of the original contingent were deployed, and by year’s end troop levels dropped to below 100. In 2008, one year before the official end of the US military mission, President Viktor Yushchenko ordered all remaining troops in Iraq to return home, marking an official end of Ukraine's mission. [73]