Sources of tanks for Ukrainian ground forces Ukrainian T-64BM Bulat The 28th Guards Motor Rifle Division and the 180th Rifle Division were left in Ukraine, having been previously under the 14th Guards Army headquartered at Tiraspol in the Moldovan SSR.

Following the declaration of Ukrainian independence in 1991, Ukraine inherited the 1st Guards Army, 13th Army, 38th Army, two tank armies (the 6th Guards Tank Army and the 8th Tank Army), and the 32nd Army Corps at Simferopol.

Upon their establishment in 1991, the Armed Forces of Ukraine was left with its tank forces intact which included approximately 7,000 armored vehicles, 6,500 tanks, and 2,500 tactical nuclear missiles. These armed forces, and the independent Ukrainian homeland for which they fought, were eventually incorporated into the neighboring states of Poland, Soviet Union, Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia. Prior to the October Revolution of 1917, independent armed forces in Ukraine existed and had distinct organisation and uniforms in both the First World War and the Second World War. This includes tanks manufactured in Ukraine, leftover Soviet tanks in the Ukrainian Ground Forces today as well as designs imported from other countries and tanks captured in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Tanks of the Ukrainian Army have been used within the military, with their usage and origin after the Cold War and the modern era.

Slovenia t-34 main battle tank