Operation Command South

Operation Command South

OC South (blue)
Active January 1998 – present
Country Ukraine
Allegiance Armed Forces of Ukraine
Branch Army
Type Military district
Role Combined
Part of Ukrainian Ground Forces
Garrison/HQ Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Commanders
Current
commander		 Major General Andriy Hryshchenko
Insignia
Sleeve patch

The Operation Command South (OC South) is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces in the southern part of Ukraine, which was formed in January 1998 as the Southern Operation Command on the basis of the Odessa Military District and headquartered in Odessa.

The Southern OK covers 9 oblasts and autonomous republics: Odessa, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk oblasts and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

In 2005-2013 it was known as the Southern Operation Association. In 2015 eastern parts of the operation command territory were passed on to newly formed Operation Command East based in Dnipropetrovsk. The headquarters of the OC South was relocated from Odessa to Mykolaiv.

Composition

By 1 July 2006, the Southern Operational Command included 6th Army Corps (6 AK) and other units comprising:

Exercises that command units have taken part in include "Autumn-98", "reaction", "Southern redoubt-99", "Redoubt-2000", including peacekeeping – series of "Peace Shield", "Cossack Steppe," "common neighborhood", "Sea Breeze", "Fairway of Peace," "South," "cooperative partner" joint exercises with units of the armed forces of France and Italy.[1]

Leaders

Colonel General Volodymyr Shkidchenko commanded the Odessa Military District from December 1993 until it became the Southern Operational Command in February 1998.

References

  1. ↑ 70th anniversary of the Southern Operational Command
  2. ↑ http://dumskaya.net/news/v-odesse-smenilos-rukovodstvo-yugnogo-operativno-020440/
  3. ↑ "Генерал армії України Степан Полторак в Одесі представив нового командувача військ оперативного командування «Південь» Сухопутних військ ЗС України" [Army General of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak in Odessa presented the new Commander of Operation Command South] (in Ukrainian). Press Center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. 11 April 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.

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