The Air Command Center is the military unit of the

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located in the southern part of Ukraine.

History

The regions in southern Ukraine where the Air Command Center operates, are the

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, and

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, and partially Poltava, Sumy, Kirovohrad regions. The command had held it in the central and eastern regions, until January 2017. The main tasks of PvC "Center" are round-the-clock protection of the state border in the airspace and reliable cover from air strikes of large industrial and economic districts, administrative centers, the capital of the country - the city of Kyiv, the objects of the Dnipro Cascade HPP, the Chernobyl NPP, as well as important communications and military facilities in Northern, North-Eastern and Central Ukraine.

Structure

The composition of the Air Command Center includes: management (Vasylkiv, Kyiv region) * 31st Separate Command and Radio Technical Support Regiment (Kyiv) * 138th radio engineering brigade (Vasylkiv) * 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Ozerne, Zhytomyr Region; Su-27) *

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(Vasylkiv; MiG-29, MiG-29MU1, L-39) *

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(Myrhorod, Poltava Region; Su-27, L-39) * 14th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment (Poltava Oblast; MIM Hawk) * 96th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Danylivka, Kyiv region; S-300PS, S-300PT) * 156th anti-aircraft missile regiment (Zolotonosha, Cherkasy region; 9K37 "Buk-M1") * 192nd command and control center * 77th Security and Service Command (Vasylkiv) * 2204th separate battalion of electronic warfare (Vasylkiv) * 21st Aviation Commandant's Office (Kropivnytskyi) * 110th Aviation Commandant's Office (Uman, Cherkasy Region) * 112th Aviation Commandant's Office (Ozerne) * 215th Aviation Commandant's Office (Pyryatyn, Poltava Region)

Leadership

Commanders

* Major General Arkadiy Vashustin (until 8 August 2015) * Lieutenant General

Anatolii Kryvonozhko Anatolii Mykolaiovych Kryvonozhko (; born 23 July 1965) is a Ukrainian Lieutenant general serving as, acting Commander of the Air Force (Ukraine), Commander of the Air Force of Ukraine since 30 August 2024. He started his career as a Mi-8 and M ...

(8 August 2015 – 30 August 2024)

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