S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: The State Security Service of Ukraine - Military/Army Faction History & Lore 

The military needs to mount some kind of quick firing bolt throwing device on the front of their helicopters to safely navigate the air above the zone

What make military great 1.They have helicopter 2.Have a cool weapon (pkm in cs) 3.Kill every stalker (but not dooty maybe) 4.Have a Armored car 5.Using cool Armor 6.I don't know spetsnaz maybe

I really liked that we get to play as military in Call of Pripyat. It does a lot to humanize them, when in the previous games they were solely enemies and all character had to come from documents and whatnot.

You go from hating the military to being the military. You also go from trying to infiltrate the zone to trying to escape it

The military is one of my favourite factions in the games. I also enjoy playing as them in mods like Anomaly.

Ah yes the military, they literally have unlimited PKM ammos and gun down stalkers easily.

"because of poor protection..." *Eats an entire AK mag on the background*

Never underestimate a long lore video. Every minute is pure bliss!

The cordon gunner has given countless stalkers PTSD.

Man, it's just terrifying to think how many lives the Zone would have taken. Innocent people, army personnel, all the stalkers, and many more...

I always think that the military is the counterpart of the mercs, they want to uncover the zone's secrets, they are organized and disciplined, they are distrusted by nearly everyone in the zone, their gear are more advanced than any other faction (on par with monolith) and they don't know much about the zone, with only their superior training keeping them alive instead of becoming worm food. While every faction has their own reason for assaulting CNPP after Strelok disabled the brain scorcher, most of the reason is about reaching the wish granter, but I doubt the military is interested in the zone's myth like that, instead, the reasoning behind military's assault on CNPP could be to uncover the monolith's secrets (maybe for revenge for their soldiers that got massacred in Yantar?) and potentially, another underground labs beneath the CNPP after their encounter with monolith These guys are probably the most annoying to fight, especially during early game, second only to high profile mutants or elite monoliths. They used advanced weapons that hurts a lot, their armor is far better than your bog-standard bandits and they have a tendency to use grenades more often than anyone. About the only saving grace is that they are not as spread out in the zone as other factions and the loot you get after killing them is substantially better than looting bandits

Okay, let’s take a look at the accomplishments of the Ukrainian military in the zone: Failed basically every single operation they ever conducted Failed all rescue attempts except one Says they want to stop the stalking phenomenon, but they’re the reason why it’s still growing Indirectly created duty. CS: Failed to gun down a merc in clear sky armor with a PKM Leaves a squad to die in their own warehouses Gets their asses kicked in middle of Limansk and loses a helicopter SoC: Wiped out small loner faction in the cordon Sets up a base in Agroprom. Tries to kick out a group of loners near the second building in agroprom(failed) They get their base wiped out by the marked one who was armed with a modified AK-76 and a regular sunrise suit Raids X-18 to get the documents, again failed Gets their documents stolen in their checkpoint Tries to take over radar after the brain scorcher was shut down, failed Once again assaults the CNPP in Operation Monolith, once again get completely wiped out by a mega-emission CoP: Launches Operation Fairway, do I even need to say what happened here? Survivors of the operation get holed up in a laundromat in Pripyat They are then saved by Major Degtyarev and takes strelok with them and a gauss rifle too And that’s it for now until stalker 2 releases I know I have missed a couple of things but in conclusion: This is probably the most incompetent military in any video game ever.

If he does every faction, then i would hella excited to see UNISG.

Really love the chronological order of events you had put in the video, from Scar to Marked One and Major Degtyarev

Fun fact: first playthrough of cs i accidentaly took a wrong route and skipped the machine gunner

Oooooh just when I was done with my military playthrough in Anomaly, reached veteran, got killed by the controller in x16 Dimitri was a good soldier

Great work! Threre aren't many good stalker lore videos, especially in English. I swear i could listen to you for hours, talking about faction's equipment is also a nice touch. Thanks for your work, you got me hyped to play stalker again.

I kind of wanted to start writing a story about Stalker using existing lore but also adding my own ideas.. One of those ideas was that the military is partially responsible for stalker population in the zone. Sidirovich and the military are cooperating in that regard where Sid gets the military to turn the blind eye on a novice getting smuggled in the zone (rookie village) for a fee which Sid then gets back triple full by tasking those same novices to do tasks for him.

3:09 "because of this poor protection..." he says while a grunt takes an entire mag dump to the face

The Military really serve as the enemies the player first encounter in SoC and CS. They are indeed a tough faction to deal with and the whole story behind is quite interesting. GJ man!

Great video as usual! I love watching your vids man. There's something special about your voicing that gets me into listening :d

My current playthrough of Anomaly is a Ukrainian Spetsnaz operator; but since there’s no IWI Tavor 21 nor an IWI Tavor X95, I had to convert a HK SA80A2 to 5.45x39mm Soviet to be close enough to a replica of the licensed Fort-221 carbine

Top tier content as usual... Love ur videos

Another amazong video. Your breakdown of the military operations is on poimt and very detailed, there were some details I wasn't aware off. I'm hoping this channel is going to br big with all the stalker fans and the release of the sequel people are only going to be more Interested in the secrets of Th Zone. Awesome editing and very discriptive and detailed explanations of the events to gomalong woth it. This is by far the best Stalker related channel on RU-vid.

Very nice video once again! Keep it up bro!

The reason as to why they're so corrupt and suck at their job is because it's a security service, not a National guard or active duty service, they're more of a counter-terrorism/civil unrest fotce than a military, they get poor pay and funding, and most of the equipment they're sent from ghe military is pretty terrible or in already bad condition except maybe the T64s which are all but abandoned since the REAL military pulled out. Only thing going for them is the units such as spetsnaz and the helicopters/vehicles from outside of the zone, personally I think Berkut (State Security Servicr of Ukraine) is gonna be disbanded and replaced with fhe Ukrainian national guard like they do irl, or the real military.

Very informative man, love the content

Really digging your lore videos. Hope your channel blows up (not literally) someday. I'm so hyped about Stalker 2, been waiting for over a decade now. Are you going to make Stalker 2 videos once it comes out and you managed to gather lore about it?

Very cool videos, the accent makes it x10 cooler, thanks mate!

What a cool little channel I found here Earned a sub, nice work

Eeee yay! My favorite faction, awesome video! ^_^ Even if they are secondary antagonists, and fail a decent bit, I like them.

Appreciate the videos man

Great content!

How do you get the shots of the military deployed and waiting to move? All the cutscenes you do are really good! Great camera work!

Just subscribed your quality bro love your channel keep it up brother

Underrated video and underrated channel.

glad you covered this faction my man.

I just want to add that "Military" as defined in the game is a confusing term. All of the patches and mentions actually are not about army, but about two different structures. Army (military) is Ministry of Defense. SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny, СБУ) aka SSU (State Service of Ukraine) is a structure on it's own and is under authority of the President of Ukraine. Another structure which is labeled as "military" in the game is Ministry of Internal Affairs (you can see МВС on patches - Міністерство Внутрішніх Справ). To understand what this ministry is, one of the biggest structures under Ministry of Internal Affairs is what is nowadays a national police (it was militsiya back in 2006). Both SSU and police can be and are militarized when needed, and have their own special forces (spetznas - term from USSR, in russian - specyalnogo naznacheniya, translated as "special purpose [forces]"), but they are not army.

"They're only following orders..." I think I've heard that one before

Great job man. I love the military 😎👍

What if you, wanted to cross the cordon, but the military gunner said: haha machine gun goes bbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I would not be surprised if the military were the ones who also hire the mercenaries. Since they can deploy undercover agents. It is also funny that with their resources and connections they still struggle with the zone. There are supposedly vehicles able to operate in the anomalous areas inside the zone, modofied by the stalkers such as Cardan, it is revealed in the outro. But who's the final enemy if the c-conciousness was destroyed.

in soc, most of the time i killed the whole guards under the bridge or passing them through the broken fences (near space anomaly if it's in cs). but surprised when i actually can bribe them with only 500 rubles lol. and idk if it's true or not but if you pass the bridge with bribe, sometimes later you'll find the rookie village was wiped out by the military, so in the end i always choose to shoot them (at least you can sell their loots and 74u is always a better choice than bandit mp5). 74u changed my early gameplay before i can get strelok's fast ak.

Btw armymen are kind of stalkers themselves, at least in SoC when killed they can give coordinates of stashes, which sometimes contain artifacts.

Just slapped the army base close to newbie base in SoC - am I the only one who got a shot with sawn off from like 50-60 feet, I thought I was a hacker hahaha

Hopefuly major (colonel after CoP) Degtyarev could fix some problem within the military in the zone

Very interesting video

13:39 "Snuck in", more like straight blasted his way through the entire complex. Lol

thank you this is a good faction!

I died many times during this part lol 00:00 - 00.11 btw nice video :)

"they are only following orders" i said the same during the trail but they still pluged me guilty

Another banger

Loner's : eats at 100 rads bar in peace Duty : STALKERS JOIN DOOTY PROTECT THE INNOCENTS

Thanks for the info. Did you cover all factions?

mutants: I am afraid of no man, but the lmg at the military base... it scares me.

12:16 i see what you did there... There is rumor that some individual helped the Ukrainian authorities to obtain such maps... He had strange nickname like Eagle or Sapsan or something like that

Great video, very interesting, The military is one of my favourite factions next to the Ecology, and Mercs. Playing the Alife Warfare mod for Anomaly as Military (With tweaked values) and controlling the entire zone felt somewhat very immersive, as though it was their final push. With Dynamic Relations, they teamed up with the Mercs, and even Freedom for a bit before I ultimately had to cut ties with Duty, then relations failed with the Mercs and Freedom. In the end It was just myself, and the Ecology, and I regretfully had to Order 66 them, personally assassinating the scientists to ensure the knowledge never leaves the Zone. I gunned down the final scientist as he fled while I was listening to Firelake to really embrace that feeling of emptiness and "I'm only following orders, I'm sorry."

Everyone subscribe to this man - see how much time he spends making nice videos for us! Btw AD if you ever read this, are you Italian by any chance?

Can you make a video on Freedom?

I realy like your videos

finally the millitary video.thx stalker

In anomaly I used to see and hear the helicopters sometimes but I am playing Gamma now and after a lot of hours I have not seen one or heard one. Maybe they took them out in gamma or maybe I am not far enough along since I haven't went past the barrier yet

I think a big step for the military in the right direction would be establishing some sort of intelligence network inside the zone. Informants, spying on communications, or working closer with ecologists. Many of their downfalls come from a lack of information about the zone. If they had a better understanding they could approach the zone with some tact instead of just slamming their troops into it and hoping to come out victorious. Unfortunately the only time they seem to adapt is after a catastrophic failure. We'll see what their plans are in STALKER 2

Is there any chanse i can join scientist's faction? I have seen your previous video about you talking for freedom and duty but you havent talk about scientists mercenarys and other

Hey can you please do a video of hidden location and how to get to them. For example that bed location in radar where there a metal door that has a password and broken ladder or that use anomaly to transport you to different place

nice :)

Masterpiece

The name of PKM soldier is Volodymyr Vist

Do a lore video on the cordon army outpost commander next

One thing that always confused me was why a lot of regular Army grunts are seen with AKS-74U's. Now sure, rare weapons are relatively well represented in the Stalker franchise, but considering these are regular soldiers from a real military force that actually exists, how many of them carry AKS-74U's is quite strange, considering it's a Spetsnaz and second-line weapon for tank crews and truck drivers and the like and most of the soldiers should be carrying the full length rifle version.

Seems like every faction was supposed to hunt for the documents of the x labs.

9:29 Did you get this gun as a reward from bandits or by completing side missions for stalkers in Army Warehouses?

I remember seeing in Soc and it said get your documents out so i put my gun away and go up to them and they start shooting. Now I know why they shoot stalkers

Ye know when you have to leave the Swamps for Cordon? Yeah, I call that "Reverse Normandy"

Sounds like assinment to the Zone is a alteritve to military Prison or a penal detachment for the grunts, they are given whatever the quartermaster find at the bottom of the store bunkers with key points given actual armemrments of weight, Supprised there not more Mosin-Nagants or SKS's about. Or those higher officers are put there to stop there incompidance from effecting other matters of state

3:09 "Beacuse of this poor protection..." you say it exactly when a soldier tanks almost entire mag of AK into the chest XDDD

The military is like the second mercenary faction, only that this time, they kill every single faction other than Duty and the Ecologists, since they want to find information in documents, conclude experiments in the zone, et cetera.

Interestingly (for me, anyway), the State Security Service of Ukraine, usually referred to by the Ukrainian initialize SBU, is not quite the military. It’s more of a successor to the Soviet era KGB.

Superbe

There seems to be very little amount of call of pripyat content on youtube

I know the military are strong but they semmed to get destroyed or barely scaped the factions in the STALKER games,heck one of the most dangerous factions are the ones who pray to a rock.

anomalous pls do the last faction about the ecologist or scienties

S.T.A.L.K.E.R getting a bunch of loot is so satisfying

I mean they are high-risk ammo and gear source everytime i boot my stalker games lol

i wonder how the grunts on the ground feel about being posted to the zone they must have pissed in some1 coffy to get sent here

Stalker became better if u could macke friend with military and thay could help stalker if they wernt hostile. Right?

yea i once did see a millitary guy and started yelling STALKER! and i was like yea he did see me and then another one started yelling stalker too and started shooting at the millitary guy i was just watching

I’m stuck trying to get into the zone in clear sky holy shit dude why can’t I get past that god damn gunner

If only the military knew the secret to avoiding emissions.. stand on top of the NPP.. :(

Military has a weird relation with emissions haha

Mybe in Stalker 2 they will be actually strong... So they would be an actual threat.

It's called NSA, rather than State Security Service (SSS)

I used to think the Military were absolute clowns till I played Call of Pripyat. That game gave them a human side.

chad sky

Their helicopters are probably the most powerful element they use

We all know the greatest soldier is Viva Vost

Only Military Stalker have Mi24 hind

Stalker anomly pls

if they don't bother me i don't bother them

If the zone was a thing thing would Ukraine collaborate with Russia or the US? Maybe both? There's no way they would have enough resources to do everything they want to in the zone. The US is always eager to use its #1 military in the world for something and Russia would likely be interested too. What do you think, would the US try everything it could to get into the zone? On a side note, I hope Stalker 2 will show us how the world reacted to the zone