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The Ukrainian Ground Forces (Сухопутні війська Збройних сил України) or more simply the Ukrainian Army is the main land force of the Ukrainian Military, controlled by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, it has primarily inherited its structure from the Ukrainian units of the Soviet Army, but following the Euromaidan uprising it became one of three organisations to absorb the unofficial (Pro-Ukraine) Volunteer Battalions into the control of the Ukrainian government under an organisation known as the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Battalions, which were later reorganised as units of the Army’s motorised infantry forces, the other 2 organisations that have absorbed these Volunteer Battalions are the Ukrainian National Guard, also under the Ministry of Defence, and the Special Tasks Patrol Police, controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In recent times has also been used as a direct fourth structure to integrate remaining elements of the Volunteer Battalions that had not previously been absorbed into Ukrainian government control, examples of said elements are:
- The Right Sector Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (later reformed as the 67th Mechanized Brigade (DUK)) and 2 of its splinters, the 1st Separate Mechanized Battalion (Da Vinci Wolves) and 108th Separate Mechanized Battalion (Da Vinci Wolves)
- The 49th Infantry Battalion (Sich) (successor of the Svoboda Party’s Sich Battalion)
- The 3rd Separate Assault Brigade (previously Azov SSO, a regiment formed by Azov veterans) and its 3rd Army Corps
- The 131st Separate Reconnaissance Battalion (previously UNSO volunteer battalion)
Figures such as Oleh Liashko joined the Army after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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