Andriy Lysenko

Ukraine’s peacekeeping efforts in Iraq have made our country well known in the Middle East. One year in the stabilization forces has brought Ukrainian servicemen extensive experience in maintaining peace while fighting skirmishes with numerous militant groups, rebuilding the infrastructure of...

Militia attacks in Iraq have forced the coalition command to resort to various protective measures to protect the lives of its soldiers. Many tactical changes have been made in a short time. Military hardware had to be re-equipped and upgraded literally on the run. The Ukrainian peacekeeping...

In his Day of the Defender of the Homeland greeting to war veterans and servicemen of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, President Kuchma praised highly the professionalism of Ukrainian soldiers who “maintain peace and order as part of international peacekeeping forces.” Rotation of Ukraine’s biggest ever...

On December 26, 45 tons of humanitarian aids, collected on the initiative of the president of Ukraine and leaders of the Ukrainian military, was delivered to the Iraqi Republic by an Il-86 plane belonging to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Passing the aids over to its addressees was...

The Ukrainian peacekeepers in Iraq have finished manning a territorial defense battalion in the province of Wasit, selecting 107 Iraqis they will train under a special program. In addition to purely military functions, the Ukrainian contingent in Iraq is assisting the populace with the setting up...

A local police department in Al Kut, which is in the Ukrainian peacekeepers’ zone of responsibility, again requested the Fifth Detached Mechanized Brigade to provide medical assistance to a massively burned local resident, who was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. I join a team of...