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In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
  Ukraine Embassy in Canada: Military Affairs
Ukrainian Air Force was created 17 March 1992 under the Directive of the Chief of the Main Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The creation of the national Navy began on 5 April 1992 with the Decree of the President of Ukraine "On Urgent Measures on the Construction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine", which made provision for the organization of the Ukrainian Naval Forces on the basis of the Black Sea Fleet, based in Ukraine.
The mission of the Ukrainian Navy in peace time is to maintain constant combat readiness and perform combat duties for the protection of exclusive sea economic zone of Ukraine, combat terrorism at sea, participate in joint peacekeeping operations with the navies of other countries under the auspices of UN.
www.infoukes.com /ukremb/milit-1.shtml   (1378 words)

  
  aUNRnavy
Ukrainian Marine Revolutionary Headquarters of the Baltic Sea Navy was created by lefthanant S. Shramchenko, who wanted to raise the Ukrainian Flag on kreisser "Svitlana" and minesweapers "Ukrainets" and "Haidamada" and transfer them to the Black Sea.
Already by February 25th "The Navy Bill" stated that the navy was to play a key role in Ukrainian politics, proposed further construction of new ships and increace the naval aviation and marine corps.
The navy was to be competed with unfinished cruisers from the docks and included the Baltic minesweepers, where majority of sailors was of Ukrainian origin.
www.geocities.com /unavy/aUNRnavy.html   (918 words)

  
 Ukraine Navy
The main purpose of the Navy reform and development is the establishment of mission ready, structurally balanced component of the Armed Forces, equipped with state-of-the-art naval weapons, capable of accomplishing missions in assigned operational areas independently and jointly with other armed forces branches.
The Ukrainian Navy consists of groups and divisions of surface naval warfare, aviation and coastal units, command and control, support and logistics.
Sebastopol Navy Institute was established on the base of two Sebastopol Naval Colleges in accordance with the order of Defence Minister of Ukrain N133,25.07.92 and Resolution of Ministers Cabinet of Ukraine N 490,19.08.92.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/ukraine/vms.htm   (643 words)

  
 Sevastopol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At first, Moscow refused to recognize Ukrainian sovereignty over Sevastopol as well as over surrounding Crimean oblast, arguing that city was never practically integrated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic due to its military base status.
The ex-Soviet Black Sea Fleet with all facilities was divided between Russia's Black Sea Fleet and the Ukrainian Navy after a continuous struggle.
Two navies now share some of the city's few harbours and piers, while others were demilitarized or controlled by one country.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sebastapol   (749 words)

  
 Ukrainian sleeve and breast patches
Ukrainian navy sleeve patch for the navy's Sevastopol garrison.
Ukrainian navy sleeve patch for naval coastal defence HQ.
Ukrainian navy sleeve patch for navy coastal defence.
www.tridentmilitary.com /Ukrainianmilitaria/Ukrainianpatches.html   (2733 words)

  
 Black Sea Fleet (BSF) Morskoyo Flota ( Naval Force)
Ukrainian naval forces, with about 160 vessels, are based to the south in the port of Donuzlav.
Although Ukraine had no use for a blue-water navy and cannot afford to maintain one, it was reluctant to surrender its share of the fleet, both of whose home ports are in Ukraine, to a larger neighbor with a tradition of domination.
During the negotiations for the CFE treaty, the division was transferred to the navy and transformed into a coastal defense division.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/russia/mf-black.htm   (4082 words)

  
 Embassy of Ukraine: Military Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The creation of the national Navy began on 5 April 1992 with the Decree of the President of Ukraine "On Urgent Measures on the Construction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine", which made provision for the organization of the Ukrainian Naval Forces on the basis of the Black Sea Fleet, based in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Naval Forces today include surface ships and submarines, naval aviation, coastal artillery and missiles, marines, other combat, service, special and technical support units.
The mission of the Ukrainian Navy in peace time is to maintain constant combat readiness and perform combat duties for the protection of exclusive sea economic zone of Ukraine, combat terrorism at sea, participate in joint peacekeeping operations with the navies of other countries under the auspices of UN.
www.ukremb.ca /mil/navalforces.html   (208 words)

  
 Russia, Russian Studies, Russian Scholars - JRL 4-15-05
One of such issues is the stationing of the Russian Federation Black Sea Navy in the Ukrainian city of Sevaspotopol (the Crimea region).
The Russian Black Sea Navy is not a problem for Europe; it is a problem for NATO and, therefore, for the USA.
Ukrainian authorities have already spent much time and energy on the only submarine of the national navy.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/9121-22.cfm   (1081 words)

  
 Ukraine Info | About Ukraine | Armed Forces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Commander of the Ground Forces is Colonel-General P. Shuliak (was appointed to this position in December 2002 by the Decree of the President of Ukraine).
This ratio is based on the missions assigned to the AF services and also on the fact that current economical situation in the country prevents implementing military and technical achievements in all areas.
The Ukrainian Navy is based on former units from the Soviet Black Sea Fleet.
www.ukremb.com /about/armed-forces.html   (1171 words)

  
 RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: B :: Black Sea Fleet
During the negotiations for the CFE treaty, the division was transferred to the navy and transformed into a coastal defence division.
In June 1993, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement that essentially split the fleet in half, beginning in September 1993 and reaching completion in 1996.
When Ukraine demanded the division of the Black Sea Fleet, Russia was forced to begin construction of a new naval base near Novorossiysk, since some 80 to 90 percent of the Black Sea Fleet of the former USSR was deployed in Sevastopol.
www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/b/black_sea_fleet.shtml   (1834 words)

  
 Ukraine, Russia, and the Black Sea Fleet Accords
While Ukrainian and Russian domestic politics were factors in determining the long course of negotiations, it seems that delay tactics conducted by both sides were rarely directed at a domestic audience, with the aim of winning over domestic coalitions.
As the Ukrainian government claimed the ship’s crew had acted of its own volition, local authorities in Odessa announced that the frigate was under their protection, and that no charges would be brought against the crew.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk was talking to the press, however, but only to note that Ukraine’s Supreme Council on Foreign Affairs and CIS Relations had concluded that the BSF division agreement and the Massandra protocol did not correspond with Ukraine’s interests.
www.wws.princeton.edu /~cases/papers/ukraine.html   (9290 words)

  
 Ukr Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The history of the Navy’s formation dates back to April 5, 1992, when the Decree of the President of Ukraine “On urgent measures to develop national armed forces” was published.
It envisaged to develop Ukrainian Navy, basing on the Black Sea Fleet, deployed at the territory of Ukraine.
In peaceful time the Navy execute missions to maintain permanent combat readiness and duty, security and defense of exceptional (sea) economic zone of Ukraine, counter-terrorism at sea as well as participation in peacekeeping operations jointly with other Navies under the auspices of the UN.
www.calguard.ca.gov /ia/Ukr-Navy.htm   (193 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Navy & Marine Corps Medical News MN-99-10 March 12, 1999 This service distributes medical news and information to Sailors and Marines, their families, civilian employees, and retired Navy and Marine Corps families.
Gurevich is no stranger to naval medicine as his grandfather was a physician in the Ukrainian Navy of the former Soviet Union.
Naval Hospital's enlisted retention figures exceed national Navy retention figures in all categories: 47 percent of first-term personnel re-enlisted compared to Navy-wide figures of 31 percent; 57 percent of second-term personnel re-enlisted compared to 50 percent Navy wide; and 73 percent reenlisted compared to 58 percent Navy wide.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/news/mednews/med99/med99010.txt   (3216 words)

  
 NEWS ANALYSIS: Development of Ukrainian navy hindered by shortage of funds (09/06/98)
Which was why on Ukrainian Navy Day none of Ukraine's 44 major combat vessels budged from their berths.
Rear Admiral Mykhailo Yezhel, Ukrainian deputy defense minister and navy commander, listed the single firing of a cruise missile and the graduation of the country's first batch of naval cadets as Ukraine's biggest naval achievements this year.
But until the status of Sevastopol is settled and the rent money from the Russian fleet begins entering Ukrainian state coffers, the Ukrainian navy appears likely to stay as it is: small and modest.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1998/369804.shtml   (692 words)

  
 flag of Ukraine - Naval Flags flags
There are some reports of a Ukrainian naval ensign, jack and flag for the Ukrainian Border Guard.Flagmaster, 1994 showed the naval ensign as a blue cross throughout on a white field with the blue over yellow charged with the 'tryzub' (without the shield), in the canton.
This Navy flag was established by spring 1918, during government of hetman Skoropads'kyi, and was restored with establishment of independence).
Photo accompanying text: "Navy officers onboard a battleship at Sevastopol Bay, prepare to raise the new Ukrainian naval flag for the first time, marking the first anniversary of the Ukrainian navy on 1 August.
fotw.tukayyid.de /flags/ua~.html   (1736 words)

  
 Russian Black Sea Fleet - CDI Russia Weekly #270
By trading on the issue's propaganda potential, Russian and Ukrainian politicians seem to be vying with one another in the absurdity of projects that are being proposed on either side.
Say, Ukrainian law provides for "a possibility of conducting no-notice checks of compliance by units of the armed forces of other states with the conditions of the Treaty." Meanwhile, under the Russian Navy regulations, foreigners are not allowed on RF Navy installations in principle.
Wording has to be precise: The Ukrainian side does not care for the word "joint." The alternative is to move the entire Black Sea Fleet to Novorossiysk.
www.cdi.org /Russia/270-16.cfm   (639 words)

  
 Top Story - Talisman or Skills Kept Local Ace Flying - The St. Petersburg Times. General news from St.Petersburg and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Ukrainian navy pilot Alexei Mazurenko was walking along the streets of besieged Leningrad when he saw an old woman begging.
The Germans were so surprised by the attack that they didn't fight back and all Soviet airplanes successfully fulfilled their mission and came back home safely, he said.
His mother Milanya was from a family of rich peasants, whom the Bolsheviks condemned as kulaks, took their possessions and exiled to Siberia.
times.spb.ru /archive/times/1068/top/t_15667.htm   (913 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Exercise Sea Breeze 98, an exercise held in the spirit of the Partnership for Peace program, began in earnest here Oct. 28, as Marines and Sailors from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (forward) established their base camp and participated in several cross-training events.
The Ukrainians were impressed with the lightness of the American weapons, according to many of the Marines.
They were surprised that a French national could serve in the U.S. Navy because in France, the only way a foreigner can serve in the French military is by joining the foreign legion.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/news/eurnews/eur98/eur98042.txt   (2633 words)

  
 AFSOUTH Images
He is assisted by a Ukrainian Navy translator, Lieutenant Ann Vidash, The journalists later witnessed operation of the JOC, located at the Ukrainian Western Naval Headquarters in Odessa, Ukraine.
A Ukrainian soldier is loaded into an ambulance by members of a Ukrainian first-aid unit in a simulated casualty drill at Shabanka Training Area, Ukraine, on 23 June 2003.
U.S. Navy Captains Carl Asseff, right-center and Timothy McCullough, right, were participating along with the Ukrainians in NATO Exercise Cooperative Partner 2003, which takes place this year in and near Odessa, Ukraine.
www.afsouth.nato.int /exercises/COP03/Photos4.htm   (400 words)

  
 Ukraine - Historical Naval Flags (1918) - Part 1
- Navy ensign - white with blue cross (cross with thin white and blue borders), national colours in canton, gold (bronze) trident in the centre of canton.
Ratio - unknown; width of the cross - 1/11 of flag-height; widths of blue and white borders - 1/8 of width of the cross.
However this is wrong: First navy ensign of Ukraine was adopted by Law on 14, Jan. 1918.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ua~1918.html   (840 words)

  
 NATO Research Fellowships 1994-1996
Despite that during recent decades the fleet played a secondary role in the Soviet Naval Forces, the question of it however, was raised on the agenda in both Kiev and Moscow soon after the emergence of independent Ukraine.
Since that time Ukrainian leaders have considered it as a test case for Ukrainian integrity, the presence of foreign troops on its territory and the establishment of the Ukrainian Navy.
The ignorance of the Ukrainian Naval Commanding by their Russian colleagues during the recent years became even a habit in Russian Navy's General Staff.
www.nato.int /acad/fellow/94-96/lupiy/01-02-02.htm   (1334 words)

  
 Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The purpose of this event is to familiarize the Ukrainian Navy with U.S. Search and Rescue procedures at sea.
Ukrainian naval officers will view a full range of SAR operations to include: overview of doctrine, regulations and guidelines to SAR operations; procedures; command and control; alert notification and mission procedures; personnel training, certification and assessment; special equipment; damage control pertaining to fire management; equipment disaster sites; and missing/downed aircraft and aircrew.
The purpose of this visit is to assist the Ukrainian military in their effort to improve instruction techniques and personnel policy methods regarding force development and management of personnel.
www.usemb.kiev.ua /assist_odc_bilat_eng.html   (196 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Ukrainian Sea Guard (; full name Морська охорона Державної прикордонної служби України, Sea Guard of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine) is the coast guard service of Ukraine, subordinated to its Border Guard Service.
Ukrainian Sea Guard is the local successor of the Soviet Border Troops' Naval Units that have been similarly responsible for coast guard tasks.
Servicepersons of the Sea Guard wear either the fl uniform similar to Ukrainian Navy, but decorated with some green elements (traditional for border guard), or a common uniform of the Border Guard.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Ukrainian_Sea_Guard   (157 words)

  
 Cossack Pirates of the Black Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The daring exploits of the pirate Cossacks of the Black Sea protected Ukrainians from the Turks, helped nation-building efforts and set swashbuckling traditions that still live in the Ukrainian navy.
Over time, freeing Ukrainian slaves held by Turks became one of the most satisfying accomplishments of the Cossacks, who were coalescing in small military bands called vatahy.
An old Ukrainian proverb popular among the Cossacks declared that only Russians and the lowest class of serfs wore their shirts over their trousers.
www.thehistorynet.com /mh/blcossackpirates   (1220 words)

  
 August 1999 Newletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
From the Office of the Military Attaché of the Embassy of Ukraine, we welcomed Navy Captain Serhiy Necheporenko and Army Major Valerij Kondratyuk, who were intrigued at their first-hand observation of how we Ukrainian Americans come together to socialize and voluntarily organize projects to aid Ukraine.
The correct transliterations of Ukrainian historical figures and Ukrainian place names are no longer acceptable in the Russian transliteration.
The Ukrainian people are slowly regaining their historical heritage and are dispelling the lies and disinformation of their former occupiers and you need to take note of this just as other editors and publishers are doing.
www.thetuca.org /nltr/11.htm   (3755 words)

  
 Russia and Ukraine fight over natural gas and Black Sea Navy prices - Pravda.Ru
The Ukrainian government passed a decree to conduct the inventory of property of the former USSR's Black Sea Navy.
The government of the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol was very concerned about such a sudden turn of events with the Russian Black Sea Navy.
The chairman of the municipal council, Valentin Borisov, stated that the navy should not be withdrawn from the city.
english.pravda.ru /russia/politics/22-12-2005/9430-ukraine-0   (736 words)

  
 rachelleb.com: Chicago Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
I know that no one is at Navy Pier in the winter and in the summer he'll get a ton of attention, but on Michigan Avenue the crowds NEVER go away.
In the entire Ukrainian Village, including the East Village, Chicago Avenue between Damen and Western is what felt the most like Little Poland and where the most evidence of its Eastern European roots came through.
Ukrainian Village is bound by Damen Avenue to the east, Chicago Avenue to the south, Western Avenue to the west and Division Street to the north.
www.rachelleb.com /cat_chicago.html   (4062 words)

  
 Government portal :: Ukrainian Navy's corvette "Ternopil" heads for Greece to convene joint exercises
Ukrainian Navy's corvette "Ternopil" heads for Greece to convene joint exercises
The Ukrainian Navy's corvette "Ternopil" left the Sevastopol port on Sunday for the Crete Island on a friendly visit to Greece.
The Ukrainian naval officers are supposed to convene joint exercises with Greek naval officers in the Suda Bay naval base, with a view of getting prepared to the "Active Endeavor" anti-terrorist operation in the Mediterranean Sea.
www.kmu.gov.ua /control/en/publish/article?art_id=52831624&cat_id=32598   (313 words)

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