Ukraine not to kick off general mobilization just yet - defense chief
The Ukrainian government currently sees no need to mobilize the population.
The Ukrainian government currently sees no need to mobilize the population.
Poland has decided to hand over to Ukraine a batch of security assistance.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry is planning to create analogues of the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), which will deal with procurement in the Ukrainian army, following the example of the ProZorro e-procurement system.
Current data on the build-up of Russian troops near Ukraine’s border do not differ significantly from those of the spring of 2021, and the attention of the world's leading countries to the war in Ukraine is linked with geopolitical interests.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that Denmark is ready to supply weapons and other military equipment to Ukraine if Russia continues escalating the situation.
Over the past day, January 30, the Russian-occupation troops violated ceasefire in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in eastern Ukraine twice.
29 January 2022
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin considers that the buildup of Russian forces along Ukraine’s border provides Putin with a complete range of military options, including a full-scale invasion.
The Canadian military from the UNIFIER training mission will not take part in combat operations if Russia invades Ukraine.
The fourth batch of the U.S. military aid – 81 tonnes of ammunition – arrived in Ukraine on Friday evening.
Over the past day, the Russian-occupation troops did not open fire on Ukrainian positions in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area.
28 January 2022
Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov has called the international military assistance to Ukraine very optimistic.
At present, no events or actions of military nature, which would differ significantly from what happened last spring, are observed near Ukraine’s border.
Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov met with a bipartisan delegation of the U.S. Congress in Kyiv.
Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov met with a bipartisan delegation of the U.S. Congress in Kyiv.
Over the past day, the Russian-led occupation troops breached the truce twice on the positions of the Armed Forces.
27 January 2022
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has introduced amendments to the legislation on national resistance and allowed voluntary formations of territorial communities to use small arms, in addition to hunting rifles.
Canada will extend and significantly expand UNIFIER, its military training mission in Ukraine, for another three years.
Over the past day, the Russian-occupation troops did not open fire on Ukrainian positions in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area.
26 January 2022
Fifty-six percent of Ukrainians are ready to join the territorial defense units.
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded 10 multiple launch rocket systems, 25 howitzers, 43 tanks and other heavy weapons outside designated storages sites in the occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
A third plane with the U.S. security aid cargo arrived in Kyiv on the evening of January 25. Another batch will be delivered in the near future.
A third plane with the U.S. security aid cargo arrived in Kyiv on the evening of January 25. Another batch will be delivered in the near future.
Over the past day, the occupiers launched five attacks on positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area.
25 January 2022
British instructors have started training the Ukrainian military to operate NLAW anti-tank missile systems, provided by the British government as part of defense assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Representatives of the Latvian defense ministry were this week scheduled to visit Smolensk and Bryansk regions of the Russian Federation as part of an OSCE arms control effort. Russia has denied such access, while its defense agency posted on its website a report on the alleged arrival of the Latvian monitors.
Up to 8,500 U.S. troops have been put on high alert ahead of a possible deployment in Eastern Europe amid Russian military buildup near Ukraine's border.
Ukrainian authorities urge citizens to remain calm as tensions mount in international media reports, noting that an actual military incursion into Ukraine on the part of Russia is “physically impossible” at the moment.
Between the evenings of January 21 and 23, the OSCE SMM recorded 132 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and 191 ceasefire violations in Luhansk region.
Over the past day, January 24, one ceasefire violation by the Russian-occupation troops was recorded in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in eastern Ukraine.