This is the 2018 edition of the Defender of the Motherland textbook for 10th grade students. In a chapter devoted to Kiev’s military doctrine, the very first paragraph identifies Russia as a military adversary of Ukraine.
The main goal of Ukraine’s military policy, as described in the doctrine, is ‘the creation of conditions for the restoration of the state’s territorial integrity, its sovereignty, and the inviolability within its state borders’.
The goals of Ukraine’s military doctrine also include “defence against armed aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine” and “Ukrainian membership in the European Union and NATO.”
