{"id":1354832,"date":"2026-02-06T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-announced-personnel-changes-in-air-defense-to-strengthen-protection-against-drones\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:31:04","slug":"zelenskyy-announced-personnel-changes-in-air-defense-to-strengthen-protection-against-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-announced-personnel-changes-in-air-defense-to-strengthen-protection-against-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy announced personnel changes in air defense to strengthen protection against drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"106\" data-end=\"329\"><strong>Personnel changes will take place in the Air Force units responsible for protection against Russian kamikaze drones of the &#8220;Shahed&#8221; type. The decisions should strengthen the work of small-scale air defense in the most problematic areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"392\"> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/17884\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was announced by<\/a> the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"394\" data-end=\"639\"> The Head of State emphasized that the system for countering strike drones should work much more effectively. According to him, the situation with air defense at the front remains uneven: in some areas, defense is organized qualitatively, in others it needs to be scaled up.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"641\" data-end=\"804\"> Zelensky emphasized that the small air defense component, which is responsible for combating the &#8220;Shaheds&#8221;, must eliminate existing problems and prevent the recurrence of current failures.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"806\" data-end=\"1006\"> The President also reported that Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov is already working on this area. Air Force Commander Yuriy Ignat has received additional instructions to optimize the protection of Ukrainian skies.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1008\" data-end=\"1152\"> The Head of State noted that Ukraine has enough experience and resources to extend effective solutions to all areas where results are still weaker.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1008\" data-end=\"1152\"> As previously reported,<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-rozkrytykuvav-robotu-povitrianykh-syl-shchodo-zbyttia-shakhediv\/\">President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated about the unsatisfactory work of the Air Force in some regions in the context of countering Russian kamikaze drones of the &#8220;Shahed&#8221; type.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1008\" data-end=\"1152\"> Recall, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-otrymaie-vid-kanady-rakety-dlia-ppo\/\">Canada will transfer AIM missiles to Ukraine for air defense systems.<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel changes will take place in the Air Force units responsible for protection against Russian kamikaze drones of the &#8220;Shahed&#8221; type. The decisions should strengthen the work of small-scale air defense in the most problematic areas. This was announced by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. The Head of State emphasized that the system for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1293532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76874,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1354832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}