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The International Defence Industries Forum (DFNC1) is an initiative of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy to build the necessary arsenal to ensure security. The first forum was held on 29 September 2023 in Kyiv and was attended by more than 30 countries and 250 defence companies, including the US Raytheon, French Nexter and MBDA, Turkish Baykar Makina, German Rheinmetall AG and others.
The structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is multifaceted. In late 2010 the total personnel (including 41,000 civilian workers) was 200,000. [ 1] Conscription was ended in October 2013; [ 2] at that time the Ukrainian armed forces were made up of 40% conscripts and 60% contract soldiers. [ 2] In April 2014 acting President Oleksandr ...
The Armed Forces of Ukraine [b] (abbreviated as AFU) [c] are the military forces of Ukraine. All military and security forces, including the Armed Forces, are under the command of the President of Ukraine and subject to oversight by a permanent Verkhovna Rada parliamentary commission. They trace their lineage to 1917, while the modern armed ...
Ukraine hosted an international defense industry conference as part of a government effort to ramp up weapons production within the country to repel Russia's full-scale invasion and reduce foreign ...
Russia's defence ministry published images of Sukhoi Su-34 bombers striking at what it said were Ukrainian troops in the Kursk border region and said it had repelled attacks at villages about 26 ...
August 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM. KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said its forces had come under multiple Russian attacks over the course of Tuesday on the Toretsk and Pokrovsk fronts in eastern ...
Unmanned Systems Forces. 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. [ 1][ 2] The USF was created in the midst of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, and was formally established on 11 June 2024. [ 3]
[25] [26] According to the Russian media, it is a second line of defence in case the Ukrainian armed forces try to penetrate the area. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In a report dated 21 November 2022, the British Ministry of Defence considered that Moscow prioritized the construction of defensive positions on the Svatove–Kreminna line .