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A map showing Ukraine Defense Contact Group members and others providing military aid to Ukraine. The Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG, also known as the Ramstein group [1] [2]) is an alliance of 57 countries (all 32 member states of NATO and 25 other countries) and the European Union supporting the defence of Ukraine by sending military equipment in response to the 2022 Russian invasion. [3]
The International Legion Defence of Ukraine, [note 1] or the Ukrainian Foreign Legion, [9] is a military unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces composed of foreign volunteers. It was created on 27 February 2022 by the Ukrainian government at the request of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fight against the Russian invasion of the country. [10]
On 13 August, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov claimed that Ukraine was the most "heavily mined country in the world", with soldiers encountering up to five mines per square metre in some parts of the front and shortages in equipment and personnel trained as sappers to remove the mines. Those existing trained personnel and equipment ...
Ukrainian forces used drones to strike a key arsenal in Russia's Tver region overnight. The attack destroyed a warehouse that stored ballistic missiles, artillery, and bombs.
Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov temporarily changed his Twitter avatar to a Fella commissioned in his honor, on 30 August 2022. [ 23 ] [ 31 ] In addition, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the country's official fundraising platform United24 recognized the group for its support in March 2023. [ 22 ]
Ukrainian forces struck a major Russian ammunition depot this weekend, causing a massive explosion that was caught on camera. The strike hit a depot near Tikhoretsk in Russia's Krasnodar Krai region.
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo. Sarah Ashton-Cirillo[c] (born 9 July 1977), formerly Sarah Cirillo and Sarah Ashton, is an American former journalist who has worked as a spokesperson for Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, in which she is a junior sergeant. A self-described "recovering political operative" [9] from Las Vegas, Nevada, she was active in ...
In 2014, the Ukrainian government announced that the defense lines will include a 60-kilometer stretch of a "non-explosive barrier," thousands of kilometers worth of trenches for personnel, armored vehicles and communication lines, and 4,000 army dugouts. The structure also includes barbed wire, watchtowers, and electronic surveillance systems ...