[3] In January 2015, Operational Command East was established with control over forces in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.

These areas were previously controlled by Operation Command South.

[3] The command at the time was led by Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev.

[6] Units under the operational control of OC East were involved in the War in Donbass.

[7] The following formations of other branches of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, respectively the general staff of the Ukrainian ground forces, are based in the area of Operational Command East and can be assigned to the command as needed: Media related to Operational Command East (Ukraine) at Wikimedia Commons