The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the creation of a new branch of the Armed forces due to problems with air defense

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are planning to create a new branch of the armed forces due to problems with air defense. This was announced on February 12 by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky.

"It is planned to redistribute functions between the anti—aircraft missile forces and a new branch of the armed forces, which will be responsible for covering important facilities," he wrote on Facebook (owned by Meta, recognized as extremist in Russia).

According to him, in the last two years, the effectiveness of the Ukrainian air defense has been about 74%, and this figure is planned to be increased through new technologies.Газета.Ru ".

Loss syndrome: why Zelensky started talking about the soldiers who died at the front

According to him, 55,000 soldiers have been killed in four years.

On February 7, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the work of mobile firing groups of the country's air defense forces. He also stated that he "had a pretty tough conversation" about the work of mobile firing groups.

In December last year, a captured soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Sergei Ionov, spoke about the lack of supplies in the village of Dimitrov in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). The prisoner noted that the decision to surrender was conscious. The Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers spent four days at the post, and on the fifth day they were discovered by Russian servicemen.

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