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The role of the Air Force is to protect the air space of Ukraine. The objectives are: obtaining operational air superiority, delivering air strikes against enemy units and facilities, covering troops against enemy air strikes, providing air support to the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Marine Corps and the Navy in wartime operations and peacetime exercises, disrupting enemy military movements on the ...
The Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force (Ukrainian: Командувач Повітряних сил Збройних Сил України, romanized: Komanduvach Povitryanykh syl Zbroinykh Syl Ukrainy) is the head of the professional and administrative head of the Ukrainian Air Force, and is under the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
The regions in southern Ukraine where the Air Command South operates, are the Odesa Oblast, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol, Mykolaiv Oblast, Kherson Oblast and paltially the Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovhradand Zaporizhzhia Oblasts. It is the successor to the 5th Aviation Corps of the Air Force and the 60th Air Defense Corps since then.
The Ukrainian Air Force participated in the war in Donbas. [101] Following the 2014 ceasefire, the air force was suspended from carrying out missions in the areas of Donbas. [102] Since February 2022, the Air Force has been engaged in constant combat operations in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In that capacity as a speciality of the force, Ukrainian Air Defense became involved in the long Russo-Ukrainian War from the 2010s and onward. The modern day AADMA-AF reports as a operating service arm under the office of the Commander of the Air Force with units operating all over the country.
[61] [62] Many Ukrainian air defense facilities were destroyed or damaged in the first days of the invasion by Russian air strikes. [63] In the opening days of the conflict, Russia fired many cruise and ballistic missiles at the principal Ukrainian ground-based early warning radars, thereby blinding the Ukrainian Air Force to their air activity.
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.
Pages in category "Military units and formations of the Ukrainian Air Force" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .