The Ukrainian Week

12 March, 2019	Breaking news	Combat drills of Ukrainian military took place in Donbas The fighters practiced with multiple launch rocket systems
14 February, 2019	World	Laura Cooper: “The United States is steady in its assistance to Ukraine, and we have been before the elections, we are during this period of time, and we will be after” The Ukrainian Week talked with Acting U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy on the act of aggression in the Kerch Strait and the military assistance to Ukraine.
28 April, 2017	Politics	Finding the balance What it takes to upgrade Ukraine’s military
22 October, 2013	Security	Who Will Protect Us? Squeezed between two power blocs, Ukraine will inevitably join one. It cannot afford its non-aligned status and the upcoming military reform will not help
22 October, 2013	Security	A Volunteer Army: Beyond Alliances and Quality Standards The new military reform entails a transfer to a volunteer professional army in 2014 and a significant reduction in military personnel. In reality, it seems to be nothing more than an attempt to save money
9 September, 2013	News	*The Washington Post*: Suppliers of weapons to Syria may have used Ukrainian sea port in Mykolayiv Oblast A new study by independent conflict researchers describes a heavy volume of traffic in the past two years from Ukraine’s Oktyabrsk port, just up the Black Sea coast from Odessa, to Syria’s main ports on the Mediterranean, Jobby Warrick writes for The Washington Post
31 March, 2013	World	Russia is Arming Itself, but Against Whom? Vladimir Putin has announced military reforms involving a large-scale rearmament of Russia. Success is not guaranteed, but Moscow will be able to do even more sabre-rattling before its neighbours and the West
31 March, 2013	Security	Strategic Incompatibility While declaring its non-alignment the Ukrainian government expressed its intent to integrate Ukraine into the European security system. The real steps it has taken suggest, however, the implementation of an operation designed to cause the self-destruction of Ukraine’s Armed Forces
12 April, 2012	History	“The Black Sea Will Smile” Ukraine’s Navy, set up 20 years ago, is struggling to survive
12 April, 2012		Ukrainian Navy celebrates Its 20th Anniversary This Year
23 December, 2011		Russian military bases and facilities are located in virtually all CIS countries
23 December, 2011	World	Do the Russians Want War? The government is consolidating the Russian nation to build up “the military power of the state”
11 October, 2011	Navigator	Tanks and Toys To set up the Yavoriv military training ground, 128 villages and hamlets were removed, but one indigenous craft has survived
12 May, 2011	Economics	Examining Weapons Research supervisor, Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies; Chief Editor, Arms Export and Defense Complex of Ukraine magazine
14 March, 2011	Investigation	Demobilization 2011 A massive layoff of officers could leave Ukraine’s army weaker and its police more corrupt