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Air Command Center

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Air Command Center
Повітряне командування «Центр»
Shoulder sleeve insignia
Active2005-present
Country Ukraine
BranchUkrainian Air Force
TypeAir military district
Garrison/HQKyiv

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

History

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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.

Map of the Air Command Center, formally formed since 23 January 2017

Structure

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The composition of the Air Command Center includes:[2]

management (Vasylkiv, Kyiv region)

Leadership

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Commanders

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Указ Президента України № 12/2017 «Про внесення зміни до військово-адміністративного поділу території України»
  2. ^ Повітряні Сили України на ukrmilitary.com
  3. ^ "У Міноборони призначили нового голову повітряного командування "Центр"". Зеркало недели | Дзеркало тижня | Mirror Weekly (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  4. ^ "У Міноборони призначили нового голову повітряного командування "Центр"". Зеркало недели | Дзеркало тижня | Mirror Weekly (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  5. ^ "Генерал-лейтенант Кривоножко тимчасово виконуватиме обов'язки командувача Повітряних сил — Генштаб". nv.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-09-02.
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