Operational Command South


The Operational 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 Odesa Military District and was headquartered in Odesa.


Operational Command South
Оперативне командування «Південь»
Operational Command West Shoulder Sleeve patch
FoundedJanuary 1998
Country Ukraine
BranchArmy
TypeMilitary district
RoleCombined
Part ofUkrainian Ground Forces
HeadquartersMykolaiv, Ukraine
Commanders
Current
commander		Major General Andriy Kovalchuk[1]

In 2005-2013 it was known as the Southern Operation Association.

Until 2015 Operational Command South covered 9 oblasts and autonomous republics: Odesa, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk oblasts and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In 2015 eastern parts of the operation command territory were passed on to newly formed Operation Command East based in Dnipro. The headquarters of the OC South was relocated from Odesa to Mykolaiv.

Composition
Map of the Operational Command South shown in dark green

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.[2]

Current structure
Structure of the Operational Command South in 2017 as per the best available Ukrainian language sources.

Operational Command South has operational command of ground force units in Vinnytsia, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, and Kherson oblasts.

Additionally the following major ground combat formations of other branches of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, respectively the ground forces, are based in the area of Operational Command South:

Leaders

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


Military Rank Name Term of Office
Start End
General Vitaliy Radetsky 1992 1993
General Volodymyr Shkidchenko 1993 30 September 1998
Colonel General Oleksandr Zatynaiko 30 September 1998 19 December 2001
Colonel General Volodymyr Mozharovsky 19 December 2001 November 2003
Colonel General Hryhoriy Pedchenko November 2003 11 July 2005
Colonel General Ivan Svyda 11 July 2005 25 June 2007
Lieutenant General Petro Lytvyn 10 July 2007 10 May 2012
Major General Ihor Fedorov (Acting) 10 May 2012 2 July 2012
Lieutenant General Anatoliy Sirotenko[3] 2 July 2012 11 April 2015
Major General Andriy Hryshchenko[4] 2016 2017
Major General Oleh Vyshnivsky 16 November 2017 July 2019
Major General Ihor Palahnyuk July 2019 2021
Major General Andriy Kovalchuk 2021


References
  1. "На керівні посади у ЗСУ призначені бойові офіцери, які відігравали ключову роль у захисті України від російської агресії | Міністерство оборони України". Ukrainian Military. 9 August 2021. Archived from the original on 9 August 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  2. 70th anniversary of the Southern Operational Command
  3. "В Одессе сменилось руководство Южного оперативного командования. Вместо Литвина – начальник академии | Новости Одессы".
  4. "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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