The Armed Forces of Ukraine has started to apply NATO standards on medical evacuation, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Husyev said.

According to Husyev, the mentioned military standard meant to be applied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine during participation in the joint operations with the NATO member states and determines main principles about the procedures of medical evacuation and their types in NATO member states.

This standard permits in future to invent reliable and financially efficient systems of evacuation, air medical evacuation as well.

"As for today, 65 NATO standards have already been elaborated today at the Armed Forces. The defence ministry's program on military standardization for 2016-2018 envisages an invention of over 70 standards, among which the most important are training manuals for ground troops and the facilities for training and applying troops to improve a level of matching the Armed Forces of Ukraine with NATO member states," Husyev said.

The military standard 'Joint Doctrine for Medical Evacuation', which was worked out based on the NATO standard STANAG 2546 – AJMedP-2, was approved by the decree of chief of the Central office of Metrology and Standardization of Armaments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.