Serhiy Zgurets

By Serhiy Zgurets, The Day The Sri Lankan government has decided to purchase a number of new Mi-24 combat helicopters from Ukraine. 4 flying machines will be shipped to the country in the immediate future according to official information from Colombo. It is expected that the Ukrainian...

By Serhiy Zgurets, The Day Last week’s Ukrainian and Russian naval exercise on the Black Sea seemed to have had the hidden agenda of creating a good backdrop for the first session of the Ukrainian-Russian Subcommittee to fill in the remaining gaps in the articles on the Russian Black Sea...

By Serhiy Zgurets, The Day The Defense Ministry of Ukraine announced that our military sappers want to participate in UN-financed operations aimed at freeing the territory of the former Yugoslavia from antipersonnel and other types of mines. The work involves high risks and thus is well...

Last week Andriy Kukin was dismissed from the post of general director of the Ukrspetseksport State Company, which handles Ukraine’s arms exports. His successor, Valery Malev, was previously Minister of Industrial Policy and later a presidential aide. Kukin chaired Ukrspetseksport from the day...

“We have spent two years waiting for this target practice, and now we can say that Ukraine is solidly protected by a missile shield,” declared Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksandr Kuzmuk while summarizing results of an exercise at Cape Tarkhankut. Coast Guard troops successfully fulfilled...

The Ministry of Defense turned to the local executive authorities asking for help in carrying out the autumn military draft. Including dismissal, this operation will cost over Hr 10 million, and the Army does not have the money. Correspondingly, the situation may stay the same as it was during the...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has requested the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies to increase the representation of the Ukrainian military in this educational institution. The management of the center, opened on June 5, 1993, in the Germany’s Garmisch-Partenkirchen, have...

On October 1 President Leonid Kuchma visited the Kyiv-based Center for Rapid Response to Crisis Situations at the Ministry of Defense and the Air Defense Command. This establishment is one of the three emergency management centers currently in Ukraine, the other two being at the Security Service...

Two things are news, both bad. The first is that, following the heinous terrorist acts in Washington and New York, European countries are triggering a chain reaction of boosting army and special services budgets and revising national defense priorities. Kyiv is already concerned about this. Last...

The US and Ukrainian military have at last come to grips with the project discussed during US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s visit to Kyiv last June, when it was announced for the first time that the US was ready to assist Ukraine in assessing its defense capability. Before that, the Pentagon...