Air Command Center
The Air Command Center is the military unit of the Ukrainian Air Force located in the central part of Ukraine, cantered around Kyiv.
History
The regions in central 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.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
- 31st Separate Command and Radio Technical Support Regiment
- 138th radio engineering brigade
- 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade
- 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade
- 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade
- 14th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment
- 96th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
- 156th anti-aircraft missile regiment
- 192nd command and control center
- 77th Security and Service Command
- 2204th separate battalion of electronic warfare
- 21st Aviation Commandant's Office
- 110th Aviation Commandant's Office
- 112th Aviation Commandant's Office
- 215th Aviation Commandant's Office
Leadership
Commanders
- Major General Arkadiy Vashustin
- Lieutenant General Anatolii Kryvonozhko