List of ministers of defense (Ukraine)

Created on 27 May 1992, the office of deputy ministers was expanded on 4 June 1992 with the chief of the General Staff holding the post until 8 February 2002.The very first Ukrainian representative in military affairs was Symon Petlyura, appointed by Volodymyr Vynnychenko to General Secretariat of Ukraine in the summer of 1917.Rogoza was instrumental in restructuring the ministry and recruiting numerous former Russian Imperial generals who pledged their allegiance to the government of Ukraine.Around that time there was created the government of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the office of military affairs of which was headed by Dmytro Vitovsky who was a specialist in special operations, particularly the mountain warfare.Vitovsky played a key role in securing the city of Lviv and ensuring the proclamation of independence of the new Ukrainian state from the disintegrating Austro-Hungary.
Rustem UmerovCabinetNational Security and Defense CouncilPresident of UkraineVerkhovna RadaTerm lengthPeople's Commissar of DefenseKostiantyn MorozovUkraineUkrainianromanizedMinistry of DefenceArmed Forces of Ukrainepresidentcivilian control of the militaryUkrainian independenceSoviet UnionPresident(s)Kostyantyn MorozovIndependentUkrainian Air ForceLeonid KravchukIvan BizhanUkrainian Ground ForcesVitalyi RadetskyiLeonid KuchmaValeriy ShmarovOleksandr KuzmukParty of RegionsVolodymyr ShkidchenkoYevhen MarchukViktor YushchenkoAnatoliy HrytsenkoOur Ukraine BlocYuriy YekhanurovRevivalValeriy IvashchenkoViktor YanukovychMykhailo YezhelUkrainian NavyDmytro SalamatinPavlo LebedyevSoviet ArmyVolodymyr ZamanaIhor TenyukhSvobodaMykhailo KovalPetro PoroshenkoValeriy HeleteyStepan PoltorakAndrii ZahorodniukVolodymyr ZelenskyyAndriy TaranOleksii ReznikovSoviet Air ForcesRustem Umierovchief of the General StaffVasyl SobkovOleksandr ZatynaikoOleksandr OliynykViktor BannykhOleksandr StetsenkoHryhoriy PedchenkoOleksandr PavliukSymon PetlyuraVolodymyr VynnychenkoGeneral Secretariat of UkraineKharkivVasyl ShakhraiMykola PorshUkrainian People's ArmyRussian Imperial RetinuePavlo SkoropadskyNikolai PodvoiskynarkomSoviet RussiaOctober RevolutionWest Ukrainian People's RepublicDmytro Vitovskyspecial operationsmountain warfareAustro-HungaryMajor GeneralOleksander HrekovAlexander RagozaOleksander OsetskyColonelOleksandr ShapovalVsevolod PetrivVolodymyr SalskyColonel GeneralMykola YunakivLieutenant GeneralMykhailo PavlenkoMarko BezruchkoViktor PavlenkoOleksandr UdovychenkoViktor KurmanovychYuriy KotsyubynskyValeriy MezhlaukVasyl HerasymenkoPrime minister of UkraineCabinet of Ministers of UkraineBBC NewsInterfax-UkraineKyiv PostRadio Free EuropeReutersUkrainian ministers of defenceVitaliy RadetskyValeriy IvaschenkoNational Security and Defense Council of UkrainePrime MinisterMinister of DefenceHead of the Security ServiceMinister of Internal AffairsMinister of Foreign AffairsChairman of the Verkhovna RadaProsecutor GeneralNational BankMinister of JusticeMinister of FinanceForeign Intelligence ServicePresidential AdministrationVolodymyr HorbulinVolodymyr RadchenkoAnatoliy KinakhVitaliy HaidukIvan PlyushchRaisa BogatyrovaAndriy KlyuyevAndriy ParubiyOleksandr TurchynovOleksandr DanylyukOleksiy DanilovOleksandr Lytvynenko