Ukraine has restored its Air Force, the core of which was destroyed by rebels in Donbass during fighting in 2014. Former Deputy Chief of the General Staff Igor Romanenko said this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“We can and will resist everything that we have restored and modernized this year in the field of air defense. And only in terms of aircraft - I don’t want the number, it is open, but only in terms of aircraft, in three years we have increased the number of combat-ready aircraft several times.
They have restored combat readiness, meaning they can be used. But these are still Soviet planes. This means that their characteristics need to be improved...
A lot of anti-aircraft missile systems have been restored,” Romanenko said.