General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is the military staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is the central organ of the Armed Forces Administration and oversees operational management of the armed forces under the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.
The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is appointed by the President of Ukraine, who is the supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces. On 28 March 2020 there was introduced a new position Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine splitting away from the Chief of the General Staff. The current Chief of the General Staff is Serhiy Korniychuk, while Commander-in-Chief became Ruslan Khomchak.
The General Staff was created in 1991-92 on a basis of the Kiev Military District headquarters of the former Soviet Armed Forces.Organization
- Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
- Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
- Joint Operations Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
- *Directorate of Legal Support
- *Department of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence
- *Financial Directorate
- *Office of assistants of the Chief of the General Staff
- *Deputies of the Chief of the General Staff
- **Chief Directorate of personnel management, Chief Directorate of moral and psychological support
- **Chief Directorate of personnel
- **Chief Directorate of operations
- **Chief Directorate of logistics
- **Chief Directorate of defense and mobilization planning of the General Staff
- **Chief Directorate of communication and information systems of the General Staff
- **Chief Directorate of Armed Forces training
- **Chief Military Medical Directorate
- **Central Directorate of military service security
- **Chief Command Center
- **Directorate of special operations
- **Chief Directorate of operational support
- **Directorate of verification
- **Central Directorate of information security and cryptology
- **Chief Directorate of military cooperation and peacekeeping operations
- **Scientific Directorate of the General Staff
- **Military Music Directorate
- **Administration Directorate
- **Chief Finance and Economical Directorate
Past directorates
- *Assistants to the Chief of the General Staff
- *Control and Oversight Directorate
- *First Deputy Chief of the General Staff
- **Deputy Chief of the General Staff
- ***Euro-Atlantic Integration Directorate
- ***Military Cooperation Directorate
- **Garrison Service Directorate
- *First Deputy Chief of the General Staff
- ** Deputy Chief of the General Staff
- ***Military scientific directorate
- ***Financial Directorate
- ***Main Financial-Economic Directorate
- ** Deputy Chief of the General Staff
- ***Section for Transition to All-Volunteer Contract Service
- ***Military Symbols and Heraldry Section
- **Main Personnel Directorate
- **Main Operations Directorate
- **Main Defence Planning Directorate
- **Legal Directorate
- Chief of the General Staff: General of the Army Serhiy Korniychuk.
- Commander of the Ground Forces: Lieutenant General Oleksandr Sirsky
- Commander of the Navy: Vice Admiral Ihor Voronchenko
- Commander of the Air Force: Colonel General Serhiy Drozdov
- Commander of the Air Assault Forces: Lieutenant General
Mykhaylo Zabrodsky - Commander of the Special Operations Forces: Lieutenant General Ihor Lunyov
