The Operational Command South (OC South) is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces in the southern part of Ukraine, which was formed in January 1998 as the Southern Operation Command on the basis of the Odesa Military District and was headquartered in Odesa.
In 2005-2013 it was known as the Southern Operation Association.
In January 2007 RIA Novosti reported that destruction of ammunition would take place at the 275th artillery ammunition base (275-й артиллерийской базе боеприпасов) near the village of Novobogdanivka, Zaporizha region.[2]
Until 2015 Operational Command South covered 9 oblasts and autonomous republics: Odesa, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk oblasts and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In 2015 eastern parts of the operation command territory were passed on to newly formed Operation Command East based in Dnipro. The headquarters of the OC South was relocated from Odesa to Mykolaiv.
Composition
Map of the Operational Command South shown in dark green
By 1 July 2006, the Southern Operational Command included 6th Army Corps (6 AK) and other units comprising:
17th Armoured Brigade (Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
50 Academic squad of special training. Kropyvnytskyi
Exercises that command units have taken part in include "Autumn-98", "reaction", "Southern redoubt-99", "Redoubt-2000", including peacekeeping – series of "Peace Shield", "Cossack Steppe," "common neighborhood", "Sea Breeze", "Fairway of Peace," "South," "cooperative partner" joint exercises with units of the armed forces of France and Italy.[3]
Organization
Structure of the Operational Command South in 2017 as per the best available Ukrainian language sources.
The following formations of other branches of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, respectively the general staff of the Ukrainian ground forces, are based in the area of Operational Command South and can be assigned to the command as needed:
^"На керівні посади у ЗСУ призначені бойові офіцери, які відігравали ключову роль у захисті України від російської агресії | Міністерство оборони України". Ukrainian Military. 9 August 2021. Archived from the original on 9 August 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
^70th anniversary of the Southern Operational Command[permanent dead link]
^"В Одессе сменилось руководство Южного оперативного командования. Вместо Литвина – начальник академии | Новости Одессы".
^"Генерал армії України Степан Полторак в Одесі представив нового командувача військ оперативного командування "Південь" Сухопутних військ ЗС України" [Army General of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak in Odesa presented the new Commander of Operation Command South] (in Ukrainian). Press Center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. 11 April 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
^"В Одесі військовослужбовцям представлено нового командувача військ оперативного командування "Південь" Сухопутних військ ЗС України | Міністерство оборони України". 16 November 2017. Archived from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
^"Командувачем сил логістики Збройних сил України призначено генерал-лейтенанта Вишнівського". www.unian.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 12 November 2023.
^"Шаптала Сергій Олександрович". www.ukrgeroes.com.ua. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
^"В Николаеве военкомов и врачей медкомиссий 5 областей учили порядку на призывных пунктах". up.mk.ua. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
^"День Захисника України: що варто знати про сучасних генералів Збройних сил України" (in Ukrainian). 14 October 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
Ukraine
Operational Command South, in Odesa 
21st Mechanized Brigade, in
28th Mechanized Brigade, in Chornomorske
41st Mechanized Brigade, in Odesa
56th Motorized Brigade (was based in Melitopol)
57th Motorized Brigade, in Kropyvnytskyi
59th Motorized Brigade, in Haisyn
60th Mechanized Brigade
40th Artillery Brigade, in Pervomaisk
38th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment, in Nova Odesa
7th Signal Regiment, in Odesa
16th Engineer Regiment, in
145th Maintenance Regiment, in
131st Reconnaissance Battalion, in Hushchyntsi
11th Army Aviation Brigade (was based in Kherson)
70th Engineer Regiment, in Bar
808th Pontoon Bridge Regiment, in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
79th Air Assault Brigade, in Mykolaiv
81st Airmobile Brigade, in Druzhkivka
14th Radio Technical Brigade, in Odesa
160th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, in Odesa
208th Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade, in Kherson
201st Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment, in Pervomaisk
43rd Communication Regiment, in Odesa
101st Communication Regiment, in Vinnytsia
1194th Electronic Warfare Battalion, in Pervomaisk
Special Operations Center East, in Kropyvnytskyi (former 3rd Special Forces Regiment)
73rd Maritime Special Operations Center, in Ochakiv
83rd Information and Psychological Operations Center, in Odesa
120th Territorial Defence Brigade "Vinnytsia"
121st Territorial Defence Brigade "Kirovohrad"
122nd Territorial Defence Brigade "Odesa"
123rd Territorial Defence Brigade "Mykolaiv"
124th Territorial Defence Brigade "Kherson"
126th Territorial Defence Brigade "Odesa City"
