Air Command Center Explained

Air Command Center is the military unit of the Ukrainian Air Force located in the southern part of Ukraine.

History

The regions in southern Ukraine where the Air Command Center operates, are the Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Vinnytsia Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast, and Chernihiv Oblast, and partially Poltava, Sumy, Kirovohrad regions. The command had held it in the central and eastern regions, until January 2017.^[1]

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:^[2]

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)
• 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Vasylkiv; MiG-29, MiG-29MU1, L-39)
• 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade (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)^[3]
• Lieutenant General Anatolii Kryvonozhko (8 August 2015 – 30 August 2024)^{[4] [5]}

See also

• Air Command East
• Air Command South
• Air Command West

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/122017-21078 Указ Президента України № 12/2017 «Про внесення зміни до військово-адміністративного поділу території України»
2. http://www.ukrmilitary.com/p/ukrainian-air-force.html? Повітряні Сили України на ukrmilitary.com
3. Web site: У Міноборони призначили нового голову повітряного командування "Центр" . 2024-09-02 . Зеркало недели Дзеркало тижня Mirror Weekly . uk.
4. Web site: У Міноборони призначили нового голову повітряного командування "Центр" . 2024-09-02 . Зеркало недели Дзеркало тижня Mirror Weekly . uk.
5. Web site: Генерал-лейтенант Кривоножко тимчасово виконуватиме обов’язки командувача Повітряних сил — Генштаб . 2024-09-02 . nv.ua . uk.