“Acting Commander of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Anatoliy Kryvonozhko, states that the transfers do not concern specialties that are in short supply in the Air Force”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“I officially inform you that such transfers will not be carried out! This also applies to other specialties that are in short supply in the Air Force.
It is also not about the transfer of people who studied abroad on the Western technology of anti-aircraft missile forces, trained soldiers from the calculations of mobile fire groups, other highly specialized specialists, for whom it is objectively difficult to find a replacement,” the Acting Commander of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated in a telegram Lieutenant General Anatoly Kryvonozhko.
The Air Force noted that the situation at the front really requires difficult decisions, in particular, this applies to the transfer of Air Force servicemen to units of other types and types of the Armed Forces.
“This is not the first year that the Air Force has been strengthening its comrades-in-arms on the front lines, primarily for the units that are trained on the basis of the Combined Rifle Brigade of the Air Force and are fighting in the hottest areas of the front. In addition, in accordance with the decisions made, the Air Force is gradually transferring a certain number of personnel to the ground units to strengthen the brigades on the front line,” the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine declares and adds that this will not apply specifically to the scarce specialties and specialists who are involved in execution of tasks by combat aircraft.
On January 14, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that “certain categories of personnel of the Air Force” after training in training centers are transferred to the Ground or Airborne Assault Forces.
Earlier, reports began to spread in social networks that specialists from the Air Force were being transferred en masse to the infantry. On January 14, the publication “Ukrainian Pravda” wrote that the last order of Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi regarding the transfer of personnel was sent to the military units of the Air Force on January 11. According to the interlocutor of the publication, according to this order, more than 5,000 soldiers should be transferred to the Ground Forces.