Contents tagged with Defense Ministry of Ukraine

  • Kyiv: Russia has deployed 53,000 soldiers on Ukrainian border

    Russia is maintaining vast military forces along the Ukrainian border, with as many as 53,000 soldiers there at the end of December 2018, reports Uninform with reference to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.

     “The Russian Federation is continuing to expand its military groups close to the Ukrainian state border. Notably, as of the end of December 2018, on Ukraine’s border and in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, 28 tactical battalion groups were deployed. The total number of the …

  • Turchynov: New Ukrainian anti-tank weapons are as good as Russian and US counterparts

    The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), Oleksandr Turchynov, speaking at the Kyiv’s Armoured Plant during the transfer of the military equipment and weapons to the army, stated that the new Ukrainian high-precision anti-tank weapons characteristics are not inferior to their counterparts from Russia, Europe and the United States, reports Interfax-Ukraine.

    According to Turchynov, in particular, this can be said about the Ukrainian Stugna-P anti-tank missile systems, …