AFU General Staff denies transfer of highly scarce Air Force specialists to infantry: didn’t and won’t plan
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has stated that there were no plans to transfer the acutely shortage of specialists of the Air Force engineering and aviation service who maintain aircraft to infantry units.
This is stated in a statement by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, Censor.NET reports.
"The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine officially informs that there are no plans to transfer the acutely shortage of specialists of the Air Force engineering and aviation service who maintain aircraft to infantry units. Instead, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is increasing the number of technical and flight personnel," the statement said.
However, according to the General Staff, certain categories of personnel of the Air Force, as well as other branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after preliminary training in training centers, are reinforcing the Army, Air Assault Forces, etc.
"The situation at the front is not easy, many areas lack infantrymen. The decision to reinforce the ground brigades on the front line with servicemen from other branches of the Armed Forces is a forced step by the military leadership to strengthen our defense," the statement said.
The General Staff also added that Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi banned the transfer of high-tech specialists and those who have been trained abroad on foreign models of weapons and military equipment.
What preceded it?
As a reminder, the day before, the aviation and technical personnel of the Air Force of Ukraine released an appeal in which they emphasized that today they face "a real challenge that could jeopardize not only our ability to perform combat missions, but also destroy the very foundation of our aviation."
Aviation technicians from the Carpathian 114th Air Force Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces also called for publicizing the situation with the transfer of personnel to the infantry.
