Ukrainian Military in a sentence

Ukrainian intelligence suggests that authorities in the Russian-occupied region of Crimea have started preparations for a possible Ukrainian military operation to liberate the Ukrainian peninsula.

Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said the Russians are striking civilian infrastructure, because they can’t efficiently target Ukrainian military assets.

Ukrainian military intelligence said on Thursday that the first North Korean units had already been recorded in Russia’s Kursk border region, where the Ukrainian military has been operating since staging a major incursion in August.

The Ukrainian military claimed on Wednesday to have struck a military air base in Russian-occupied Crimea, while Moscow said it had thwarted the attack by shooting down missiles but some debris had hit a military installation.

A piece of Ukrainian-made software has turned readily available tablet computers and smartphones into sophisticated targeting tools that are now used widely across the Ukrainian military.

The ability to provide weapons systems that are more cost-effective and less training-intensive has supported the efforts to get high-end systems into Ukrainian hands by buying the Ukrainian military time.

The Russians were using “scorched earth” tactics on Bakhmut, a top Ukrainian military commander said on Monday, as the Ukrainian city in the eastern Donetsk region and other cities and towns came under heavy bombardment.

Father Stepan Podolchak, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest, died in Kherson, the Ukrainian military administration (in exile) stated on February 15, 2024, two days after Russian forces abducted him from his home.

On Tuesday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said that the Ukrainian military has been engaged in small-scale combat with in the Kursk Oblast.

The Russians have attacked the northern border area precisely to distract the Ukrainian forces in this area, Ukrainian military officials said, but they insisted that it wasn’t working.

On the one hand, the U.S. is considering supporting the Ukrainian military in trying to cut the land bridge from Russia to Crimea, seized during the 2022 invasion, which is vital to supplying the Russian military in Southern Ukraine.

The Ukrainian military was also running out of its own military equipment and would soon only be using Western-donated equipment, he said.

According to the WSJ, Western-supplied air-defense systems are increasingly helping the Ukrainian military repel the Iranian drone attacks.

Big Ukrainian military successes in the Zaporizhzhia region could potentially enable its forces to break through the land bridge that connects Russia with the Crimean peninsula it annexed from Ukraine.

But even with higher near-term production rates, the US cannot replenish its stockpile or catch up to the usage pace in Ukraine, where officials estimate that the Ukrainian military is firing 6,000 to 8,000 shells per day.

Colborne said on Twitter that Ukrainian military intelligence “very likely” approved the incursion.

Germany is reluctant to supply Leopard tanks, besides being one of the biggest backers of the Ukrainian military with 3.3 billion euros.

I make no pretense to be able to divine the thinking that prevails within senior Ukrainian military circles, but the basic math does them no favors.

In Belgorod in southern Russia, the governor said the Ukrainian military was responsible for dozens of artillery, mortar and drone attacks across the region but reported no casualties.

In fierce battles, our defenders are inflicting significant losses on the enemy," the Ukrainian military said in a morning briefing, referring to the Russian mercenary group that has claimed to be leading Moscow's offensive.