February 3, 2025
Ukraine’s Armed Forces are transitioning to a new organizational structure intended to modernize the army, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Feb. 3.
The announcement comes after Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said that reforming the army’s structure and shifting to a corps-based system was among the military’s key priorities.
“A plan has already been approved to transition to a new organizational structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Zelensky said.
According to Zelensky, the government and the military are now focused on implementing the restructure plan with an eye toward modernizing Ukrainian forces.
“We need the corps system,” the president said.
“Today we discussed approaches to the appointment of corps commanders: these should be the best-trained, most promising officers with combat experience and modern thinking. The army must be modern.”
The relevant decisions regarding the organizational restructure will be made public, Zelensky said.
Syrskyi reported earlier on Feb. 3 that the organizational reforms were already “in progress” and would help strengthen the Armed Forces even as they face difficulties on the battlefield.
Russian forces significantly outnumber Ukrainian units in some parts of the front and have been able to gain territory in eastern Ukraine while absorbing heavy losses. Ukraine also faces on ongoing mobilization struggle, scandals over personnel transfers and mismanaged brigades, and uncertainty over the future of U.S. military aid.
https://kyivindependent.com/we-need-the-corps-system-zelensky-approves-plan-to-restructure-army
Restructuring the army won’t solve issues like incompetent and stupid commanders, inefficient management of resources, a broken recruitment system, and so forth. I hope that Zelensky and Syrskyi can get a grip on those problems. The army has enough other problems to deal with.
But, it’s good to see them fixing the current structural problems of the forces. Maybe that will help some. We’ll see.
Can someone explain what a “corp” system is?
A corps is a battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions. Usually in British commonwealth countries commanded by a Lieutenant-Colonel. In the Ukrainian context I would hope and assume that these big formations indicate a desire to expand the army.
As I have stated before, Ukraine will need to triple the size of its armed forces, if it is going to defeat putler, retake and hold land.
That is why they need ALL of that $300 billion IMHO.
Are you sure the rank for the commander of a corps is not quite a bit higher, Scradge?
I was thinking more in historical terms. These days the British army has no shortage of Generals but only two deployable divisions. We had 24 divisions in WW2!
Swingeing cuts since then have reduced us to an armed forces capable of defending not much more than the Principality of Wales in the event of an invasion!
If you include the Royal Marines and the reserves, I suppose we could probably still field about 140,000 – 150,000 combat troops. We actually need a bare minimum of twice that. More if we are going to provide an expeditionary force.
Is Britain at least starting to rebuild its army?
Only partially.
Labour have committed to 2.5% of GDP on defence; up from the Conservatives 2.3%. That might buy some modern equipment, even a few more combat troops, but up until the end of the 1950’s, we spent 6-8% on defence, which is where we need to be right now.
Well, Britain is doing better than piss poor Spain and others.
Corps … it’s a main subdivision of an army in the field, consisting of two or more divisions.
Corps to me mean either Corporals or bodies. Sorry…