Today, President Victor Yushchenko, Supreme Commander-in Chief, attends the Response-2005 strategic-tactical exercise at the Zhytomyr Training Ground. It involves divisions and units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the United Emergency Forces.

Yushchenko has arrived in military uniform and has been met by acting Defense Minister Anatoly Grytsenko and journalists.

The theme of this stage is The Military Operations of the Mechanized Battalion of the Border Division: Preparation and Conduct of Raids.

General-Lieutenant Sergey Kyrychenko, General Staff Head and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and foreign military attachés are also present at the exercise.

The Response-2005 is simultaneously held at four training grounds and six Air Force airdromes all over Ukraine. About seven thousand servicemen are involved.

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