Dmytro Tymchuk

Now that the UN is marking its 60th anniversary, much has been written about Ukraine’s peacekeeping initiatives, which represent our country’s substantial contribution to UN efforts and are improving Ukraine’s international image. Understandably, Ukrainian peacekeepers need attention, social...

Speaking of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, one usually mentions the manufacture of tanks, some air defense systems, aircraft, and ships, forgetting very often that development of the most advanced technologies does not diminish the role of the common firearms, i.e., pistols, automatic...

The Balkan uranium story has become a test for one of the rather young branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ecological Safety Service of the Radiological- Chemical-Bacteriological (RCB) Defense. However, military environmentalists “have been put through their paces” more than once since...

NATO’s KFOR peacemaking force in Kosovo has witnessed an unprecedented occasion, with an officer of a country, never a NATO member, becoming head of its public relations service. The officer is Lt. Col. Dmytro SHKURKO who, prior to his KFOR job, had been head of The Ukrainian Defense Ministry press...

The collapse of the bipolar world bestowed on us the notion of collective security. In any country, especially in Europe, a military expert involved in or with this problem and not dreaming of an assignment at the George Marshall European Center for Security Studies will be considered strange. This...