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Reserve Corps

separate brigades (kadru / cadre)
3 separate tank brigade
4 separate tank brigade
5 separate tank brigade
60 separate infantry brigade
61 separate infantry brigade
63 separate mechanized brigade
66 separate mechanized brigade
38 separate artillery brigade
45 separate artillery brigade

Citizens who are in reserve are assigned in advance to military units for military service in wartime or to other units or formations to perform duties in positions provided for by wartime states. Citizens who are in reserve and are not called up for military service or are not involved in the duties of mobilization for positions provided for by wartime states during mobilization may, in accordance with the law, be involved in the performance of works that are defensive in nature,

Article 1 (9), Chapter 1 of the Law on Military Duty and Military Service stated that ‘reservists are persons who serve in the military reserve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, other military formations and are intended for their manning in peacetime and in a special period.’ 4.8.2 Article 26, Chapter 5 of the Law on Military Duty and Military Service stated that ‘During a special period, persons discharged from military service who, according to their professional and psychological characteristics and state of health, are fit for service in the military reserve and meet the established requirements for military service shall be obligatorily enlisted in the military operational reserve.’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on 22 February 2022 said he was introducing the conscription of reservists for a special period but ruled out a general mobilisation after Russia announced it was moving troops into eastern Ukraine. "There is no need for general mobilisation today. We need to promptly replenish the Ukrainian army and other military formations," he said. "As the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, I issued a decree on the conscription of reservists during a special period," he said. "We must increase the readiness of the Ukrainian army for all possible changes in the operational situation," he said.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced 23 February 2022 that it had started recruiting reserve soldiers between the ages of 18-60, based on the President’s decision to recruit. The statement said, “Reserves between the ages of 18 and 60 will be subject to compulsory military service. In accordance with the decree of President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to call reservists into the army, they will become like officers and special non-commissioned officers.” The statement stated that the maximum term of service is one year.

Service in the military reserve is the performance of reservists' duties in accordance with the tasks assigned to the military units in which they serve in the military reserve. Reservists undergo annual training as part of a military unit in a full-time position. In case of announcement of mobilization, they are called only to the military unit with the commander of which the contract was concluded. Citizens who have not served in the military may also serve in the military reserve. They become reservists immediately after concluding a contract for service in the military reserve.

Service in the military reserve was not news for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it was introduced in 2006. But this type of service has never become too popular. By 2013, the army had a little more than two thousand reservists. One of the important tasks set by the President of Ukraine for the Armed Forces of Ukraine was to create a military operational reserve of the first turn. In March 2015, a relevant law was adopted, which establishes mandatory enrollment in the operational reserve of discharged servicemen, both from conscription and after mobilization. Reservists are appointed to their or higher positions in the units and subdivisions where they served.

In peacetime, citizens of Ukraine voluntarily enter into contracts with commanders of military units for service in the military reserve, undergo training at training meetings as part of regular units during active practical training.

During a special period, servicemen must be included in the military operational reserve after their discharge from military service, who by their professional and psychological characteristics and state of health are fit for service in the military reserve (military service). For the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this allows to prevent the loss of accounting for trained human resources that were directly involved in hostilities, which in turn allows to preserve the accumulated combat potential of units assigned to them on the orders of these persons (reservists).

In recent years, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have introduced a system of training reservists. Feature of educational meetings reserve was that they are held, as part of combat brigades only when measures of combat coordination (15 days) and at the training centers ( courses retraining and advanced training of officers with higher military educational institutions) (from 15 to 30 days), as part of military units Reserve Corps (from 5 to 30 days).

1. operational reserve of the first turn [OP1], due to which the shortage and possible losses of combat units would be replenished. By the end of 2020, it was initially expected to have up to 50,000 such reservists. They would be trained in an intensive mode at training meetings - up to 60 days each year as part of the reserve companies (batteries) of brigades and regiments. In fact, by November 2018, in order to maintain the capacity for mobilization deployment of troops (forces), the number of reservists of the operational reserve of the first turn had increased to 178 thousand people. In general, during the current year it was planned to involve more than 100 thousand conscripts from the organizational core of the territorial defense units.
2. Operational reserve of the second turn [OP2] intended to recruit new reserve brigades from the Strategic Reserves of the General Staff, in particular the reserve corps. Its volumes over the medium term would be adjusted in accordance with the economic capabilities of the state. Meetings with spare parts would be held every 2 years for up to 30 days. Also at the expense of the operational reserve of the second turn the leading structure of divisions of troops of territorial defense would be manned. Such reservists would study for 10 days a year. In fact, by November 2018, as part of 59 military units, about 20,000 reservists and conscripts of the second-tier operational reserve were trained at the training camp.
3. The third was the mobilization reserve, which would include conscripts who are not assigned to military units, but can be involved to replenish the shortage of troops in a special period.

Conscription military reservists operational reserve for military service was carried out either with the announcement of general mobilization or by a separate decision of the President of Ukraine in the partial mobilization or when a special period in progress when the relevant decision-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine without having to declare any mobilization.

The time of arrival of the reservist to the military unit (unit) from the moment of his notification was determined - one day . This would allow in the event of open enemy aggression to replenish units with trained human resources, the vast majority of whom have combat experience. Military units, due to their replenishment with reservists, would be ready in a short time to perform tasks without additional and lengthy combat coordination.

Another priority of the development of service in the military reserve was the recruitment of reservists of military units (subdivisions) of territorial defense , in order to create a new system of territorial defense of the state. In addition to participating in scheduled training sessions, territorial defense reservists are trained voluntarily and free of charge, including on weekends and in the evenings.