The Ukrainian Marine Corps, also known simply as the Ukrainian Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2023, responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations. From its modern foundation in 1993 up to 2023 it constituted part of the Coastal Forces of the Ukrainian Navy. It is used as a component part of amphibious, airborne and amphibious-airborne operations, alone or in coordination with formations and units of the Ground Forces in order to capture parts of the seashore, islands, ports, fleet bases, coast airfields and other coast objects from the enemy. It can also be used to defend naval bases, vital shoreline areas, separate islands and coast objects, and security of hostile areas.
A Ukrainian naval infantryman armed with a Dragunov sniper rifle takes part in Exercise Northern Light '03 on the west coast of Scotland in 2003.
A Ukrainian Naval Infantry BTR-80 takes part in Exercise Sea Breeze 2010.
US and Ukrainian marines simulating casualty extraction using a Mi-8 during the multinational Sea Breeze exercise in 2011.
Ukrainian Marines inside a British-donated Mastiff PPV and with a MG3 machine gun during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
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
