The Rocket Forces and Artillery (Ukrainian: Ракетні війська та артилерія, romanized: Raketni Viys’ka ta artyleriya [rɐˈkɛtʲnʲi ʋʲii̯ˈsʲka ta ɐrteˈɫɛrʲijɐ]) of the Ukrainian Ground Forces consist of units armed with tactical missiles, howitzers, cannons, mortars, jet-propelled and anti-tank artillery.

They are tasked to destroy human resources, tanks, artillery, anti-tank weapons, aircraft, air defense and other important installations operations.

[3][4] "On the eve of the professional holiday, the 19th rocket brigade, which is stationed in |Khmelnytskyi city, conducted the main examination of the year - the final test for 2010–2011.

During the Great Patriotic War 27 soldiers, sergeants and officers of the division were nominated for the award "Hero of the Soviet Union".

After the declaration of Ukrainian independence and choice of the non-nuclear status, servicemen swore allegiance to people of Ukraine.

[6] At least two brigades were part of the division, the 19th at Khmelnytskyi and the 107th at Kremenchuk (107th Rocket Artillery Regiment, 6th Army Corps (Ukraine)).

[10] After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian Rocket Forces and Artillery were left over from the Cold War era.

[18] Ukraine has asked for and been supplied with various NATO artillery firing 155 mm calibre ammunition, such as the Panzerhaubitze 2000 and "M777, FH70, M109, AHS Krab, and the CAESAR self-propelled howitzer.

While acknowledging their effect: "General Konashenkov stressed that in recent days the Ukrainian armed forces have used M777 intensively, subjecting massive artillery strikes to Russian positions in the region.

The advisor to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Oleksiy Arestovych said in March 2022 that it might take sixty to ninety shells to destroy a position.

It also allows other weapons from T-64 tanks down to AGS-17 Plamya grenade launcher to act in an indirect fire role[29] The 26th, 55th and 81st FA Divisions of the UGF and its 1st Rocket Field Artillery Division, as well as the divisional and later brigade field artillery regiments, together with the divisional and later brigade anti-tank battalions (and sometimes regiments), constituted for years since independence the Rocket Forces and Field Artillery Corps of the UGF till the 55th Brigade was created on the basis of the 55th Division.

All of these sans the anti-tank battalions under brigades kept until the 2010s Soviet orders and decorations until these were removed from unit titles and their colours.

The RF&FA, as one of the UGF's paramount combat support branches, has been Westernized slowly following Euromaidan and in a faster pace since the Russian invasion in 2022.

The Brigade Field Artillery Regiments and Anti-Tank Artillery Battalions of the mechanized, motorized, mountain, assault infantry and rifle infantry and armored brigades provide direct fires support to their subordinate formations and anti-tank warfare ops.