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Armstrong, J. A. (1968). Collaborationism in World War II: The Integral Nationalist Variant in Eastern Europe. The Journal of Modern History, 40(3), pp. 396–410. Dean, M. (31 December 1999). Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-22056-3. Gilbert Martin ...
The primary purpose of creation of the Ukrainian National Army was to integrate all the Ukrainian units fighting the Soviets under a single command. The intended size of the army, encompassing all the Ukrainian units subordinate to Oberkommando des Heeres was 220,000. However within the two months left till the end of the war, Shandruk was able ...
159th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) 704th CBRN Protection Brigade (Ukraine) S. Separate Presidential Brigade
The Ukrainian Ground Forces also include two mountain assault infantry brigades, four Jäger infantry brigades, and four reserve rifle infantry brigades. All of these units are part of the Infantry Corps and alongside those of Soviet made manufacture, these are being supplied with Western products and arms systems locally produced by the ...
0–9. 1st Naval Guard and Patrol Division (Ukraine) 3rd Separate Special Purpose Regiment (Ukraine) 6th Special Purpose Regiment (Ukraine) 8th Naval Raid Protection Ships Division (Ukraine)
During World War II, Ukrainians tried to regain independence and organized armed units and formations, including the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, [25] but all of them were destroyed by Soviet authorities [26] within a few years after the war, and Ukrainians were again forced to serve in the Soviet Armed Forces. [citation needed] [27]
The Ukrainian Ground Forces are divided into Armoured and Mechanized Forces, Army Aviation, Army Air Defence and Rocket and Artillery Troops. 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.
The Nachtigall Battalion (English: Nightingale Battalion), also known as the Ukrainian Nightingale Battalion Group (German: Bataillon Ukrainische Gruppe Nachtigall), or officially as Special Group Nachtigall [1] (German: Sondergruppe 'Nachtigall' [2]) was a subunit under command of the German Abwehr special-operations unit Lehrregiment "Brandenburg" z.b.V. 800 in 1941.