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Mil Mi-24 helicopters of the Ukrainian Army Aviation. The Ukrainian Army Aviation provides reconnaissance, tactical fire support and air transport for the Ukrainian Ground Forces in support of its paramount responsibilities to the nation. As of 2017 Ukraine's army fields four Army Aviation brigades in an Army Aviation Command directly ...
The Ukrainian Army unveiled its current uniform on Independence Day in 2016. [166] The new uniforms were modeled on British and Polish military styles [166] and incorporate details from the uniforms worn by the Ukrainian People's Army. [166] The cap includes an insignia of a Ukrainian Cossack grasping a cross. [166]
There are 13 mechanized brigades and two mountain warfare brigades in the Mechanized Forces. Ukraine also has two armoured brigades. There are also seven rocket and artillery brigades. Until 2013, the Ground Forces were divided into three army corps.
On June 8, 2023, the 47th Mechanized Brigade engaged in the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive and suffered heavy material losses. [14] [15] On July 11, 2023, headmaster sergeant Valerii Markus, who had met with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the end of June, complained about the decisions of the unit's command regarding lack of interest in soldiers morale and officers incompetence.
The brigade was officially announced in France during the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings attended by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 6, 2024. [11] By November 2024, the first wave of 2,000 soldiers had undergone training in eastern France (Camp de Châlons [12]), with plans for the brigade to eventually grow to a strength of 4,500 troops. [2]
For soldiers in Ukraine's "Spartan" brigade, danger could lurk behind every bush and in every field as they fight in Kyiv's counteroffensive against deeply entrenched Russian forces. Progress ...
Ukraine's 63rd Mechanized Brigade lived in primitive trench hovels, on a tract of land near Mykolaiv, for five months. As Newsy's Jason Bellini reports, the front has moved East, and no so have ...
The Khortytsia operational-strategic group is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces active in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.The Khortytsia operational-strategic group was led by Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who also served concurrently as the Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.