Chief of the General Staff (Ukraine)
The Chief of the General Staff is the head of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the military staff of the Forces. He is appointed by the President of Ukraine.
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Image: Volodymyr Shkidchenko
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine 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 forces were formed after Ukrainian independence in 1991.
A Tu-22M being dismantled through assistance provided by the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program implemented by the DTRA, 2002
An SS-20 on display at the World War II Museum in Kyiv
Marine of the Ukrainian Marine Corps in a military exercise in Scotland, 2003
Ukrainian Airmobile Forces in 2011