Serhiy Zhurets

Minister of Defense Oleksandr Kuzmuk has a secret that he does not yet want to reveal to anyone. He is likely to get a civilian deputy, who in the long run will have a good chance of replacing him. President Leonid Kuchma has announced his decision to appoint another civilian deputy defense...

In 1999 Kyiv announced the beginning of a project to upgrade Ukraine’s MIG-29 jet fighter fleet. At the time, several alternative projects were studied, but all of them one way or another led to Russia in a sense that arrangements were to be made with the Russian MIG Plant that built these aircraft...

By Serhiy Zhurets, The Day These days Ukrainian generals visit China more often than Russia, their strategic partner. Last week the Minister of Defense of Ukraine went to the Chinese People’s Republic on an official visit. Earlier China received the chief of the General Staff. In Beijing...