{"id":1423836,"date":"2026-08-02T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-celebrates-air-force-day-zelensky-congratulates-soldiers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:04:43","slug":"ukraine-celebrates-air-force-day-zelensky-congratulates-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-celebrates-air-force-day-zelensky-congratulates-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine celebrates Air Force Day: Zelensky congratulates soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Every first Sunday of August, Ukraine celebrates an important holiday \u2013 Air Force Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy published a congratulatory video on his Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1080px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1423836-1\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0108_Day-PS-1-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0108_Day-PS-1-1.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0108_Day-PS-1-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Over the years of war, our Air Force has become significantly stronger. We have acquired modern combat aircraft and effective air defense systems. These systems are not yet sufficient to shield our entire skies from Russian missiles, but today, Ukraine&#8217;s air defense is already one of the strongest in Europe,&#8221; the president wrote in his congratulatory message.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Pryamyi reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/eu-to-finance-purchase-of-16-swedish-gripen-for-ukraine\/\">Ukraine would allocate 2.5 billion euros<\/a> from a European Union loan to purchase 16 Swedish Gripen E fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every first Sunday of August, Ukraine celebrates an important holiday \u2013 Air Force Day. On this occasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy published a congratulatory video on his Telegram channel. &#8220;Over the years of war, our Air Force has become significantly stronger. We have acquired modern combat aircraft and effective air defense systems. These systems are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1423823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76873],"class_list":["post-1423836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423836","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423837,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423836\/revisions\/1423837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}