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 an
Command of the Ukrainian People's Republic's Marine Division, Mykhailo Bilynskyi on the right (1919)
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.
The Ukrainian Navy is the maritime force of Ukraine, and one of the eight service branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ukrainian Marine Corps
…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…
Ukrainian marines in 1921
Ukrainian warships in the port of Sevastopol, 1918
Blue and yellow flag on cruiser Pamiat Merkuria, November 1917
Ukrainian Navy artillery boat Zhuk class U170 Skadovs'k off the Bay of Sevastopol, Crimea