United Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States

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United Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Объединённые Вооружённые силы Содружества Независимых Государств
Emblem of the Soviet Armed Forces
Founded	14 February 1992; 32 years ago (1992-02-14)
Disbanded	24 December 1993; 30 years ago (1993-12-24)
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief	Yevgeny Shaposhnikov

The United Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Russian: Объединённые Вооружённые силы Содружества Независимых Государств) was a short-lived military entity associated with the Commonwealth of Independent States. It was created in 1992 after the demise of the Soviet Union, and was intended to be the continuation of the Soviet Armed Forces and to hold control over the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons.

It was rapidly superseded by the de facto Russian control of those nuclear weapons,^[1] and the formation of separate national armies for each of the former Soviet states, and had effectively ceased to exist by the end of 1993.^[2][3]