The Territorial Defence Forces are the military reserve component of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Territorial Defence soldiers during the battle of Kyiv, 25 February 2022
Territorial Defense Forces partisans capture an abandoned Pantsir missile system.
Territorial Defense Forces soldiers pose in front of the sign of Shevchenkove, then recently captured after the Kharkiv counteroffensive
Two Territorial Defense soldiers, showing an M240 machine gun and an AT4 anti-tank rocket launcher
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine are the military forces of Ukraine. They consist of the three branches: the Ground Forces, the Air Force and the Navy, and a number of separately organized forces and speci
Territorial Defence Forces (Ukraine)
…Ukrainian: Війська територіальної оборони, romanized: Viiska terytorialnoi oborony, pronounced , abbr. ВТО, VTO) are the military reserve component of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Territorial Defence Forces were formed after the reorganization of the Territorial Defence Battalions, volunteer militias created during the war…
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