Military ranks of Ukraine

On 17 October 2019, the parliament of Ukraine approved a change in the rank structure of enlisted men in order to conform to the NATO STANAG 2116 standardization.

[citation needed] Ukraine inherited the ranks of the Soviet Union upon becoming independent, with some changes: The first graduates of the Training Centre for Sergeants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv became the first professional sergeants, who wore cloth shoulder straps with a new insignia.

[8] Also, the new system of military insignia makes possible to introduce new ranks, such as brigade general or new types of sergeant.

New straps of generals have crossed maces (bulawas), which are kleinods (regalia) of Hetman, colonel and Otaman of the Host.

Uniforms using the revised system debuted on 24 August 2016, as Ukraine marked the silver jubilee of nationhood.

[12] The stars used for officers' ranking from the Soviet era were replaced with British military style diamonds – inspired by those used by the Ukrainian State of 1918.

The Navy planned to phase-in new insignia by 2017, with a unified set shoulder and sleeve rank insignia similar to many NATO and European Union naval forces with distinctions: On 30 May 2019, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) adopted as a basis Bill No.

10181 on the introduction of sergeant ranks in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in accordance with the column "NATO Code" in STANAG 2116.