Ukraine and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepared for the war with Russia and in time withdrew almost all the equipment and people from the inevitable enemy strike. This was reported by the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook..

In the first hours of Russia's attack on Ukraine, a massive missile attack was carried out on our territory with Iskander ballistic missiles, Caliber and X-type cruise missiles..

“The first targets of the occupiers were precisely the Air Force: radar units, anti-aircraft missile troops, military airfields, command posts. They planned to instantly destroy the entire air defense of the state. However, we were preparing for such a scenario, so we successfully removed almost all the equipment and people who continue to perform tasks in the current conditions from under the blow, ”the report says..

The command clarified that the stories of the military leaders of the Russian Federation that they destroyed all the air defense systems of Ukraine are nonsense..

“The enemy did not control and does not control the Ukrainian sky.

We can talk about a certain control by the occupiers of the airspace in the temporarily occupied territories, where the enemy has already brought a lot of air defense systems: S-300, S-400, Buk, Pantsir, Tor, which are gradually being destroyed by artillery, aviation and others. It is there that enemy aviation is active, but even there it suffers daily losses, ”the command concluded..

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Earlier, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appealed to the Ukrainians with an explanation regarding the situation in the sky of Ukraine, as well as about the support of Ukraine by our allies..