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v. t. e. The Security Service of Ukraine ( Ukrainian: Служба безпеки України, romanized : Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrainy; abbreviated as SBU[ a] or SSU) is the main internal security agency of the Ukrainian government. Its main duties include counter-intelligence activity and combating organized crime and terrorism.
Hero of Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine ( HOU; Ukrainian: Герой України, romanized : Heroi Ukrainy) is the highest national decoration that can be conferred upon an individual citizen by the President of Ukraine. The decoration was created in 1998 by President Leonid Kuchma. As of 4 August 2024, the total number of recipients had been 924.
Ukraine's armed forces are composed of the Ground Forces, the Air Force, the Navy, the Air Assault Forces, the Marine Corps, the Special Operations Forces, the Unmanned Systems Forces, and the Territorial Defense Forces. [ 13] Ukraine's navy includes its own Naval Aviation.
The modern name Ukraintsi (Ukrainians) is derived from Ukraina (Ukraine), a name first documented in the Kievan Chronicle under the year 1187. The terms Ukrainiany (first recorded in the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle under the year 1268 [ a] ), Ukrainnyky, and even narod ukrainskyi (the Ukrainian people) were used sporadically before Ukraintsi ...
History. On March 1, 2022, one week after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, the Russian-language edition of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia announced that the Russian government's media regulator Roskomnadzor had threatened to block access to Wikipedia in the country. [ 6] The Russian government cited "illegally distributed information ...
Entitled the Legion of Light Troops (Legião de Tropas Ligeiras), it consisted of a battalion of eight companies of infantry; three squadrons of cavalry, each having two companies; and a battery of horse artillery armed with four six-pounders, having 56 men and 40 horses. The establishment totalled 1,339 men.
Triumph and tragedy are everywhere you look at the Olympics, and the men’s BMX park final on Wednesday had a surfeit of both.. For tragedy, see how the pre-competition favorites – Australia ...
Ukraine [a] is a country in Eastern Europe.It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. [b] [10] It also borders Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; and Romania and Moldova [c] to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast.