The Army Competent Assistance Foundation “Come Back Alive” has handed over equipment for air defence units of 5 military units in Lviv region worth UAH 17,245,809. The equipment will be used to support mobile firing groups from 2023 to September 2024.
In particular, during this time, Lviv defenders received searchlights, thermal imaging sights, power supplies, communications and other equipment from the charity.
Last year, the Foundation joined the state programme to deploy mobile fire teams in newly created anti-aircraft machine gun battalions in all regions of the country and improve their effectiveness. As part of the Second Frontier of Air Defence initiative, he provided about 600 MWGs.
In total, Come Back Alive spent UAH 271,826,574.79 to reinforce the mobile air defence teams. In particular, we have delivered to the units
- 112 new pick-up trucks
- 1949 units of optics;
- 2725 tablets and components;
- 879 communication equipment;
- 248 floodlights;
- 956 power supplies;
- 323 laptops;
- 195 monitors.
The assistance was provided to 114 military units from 22 regions of Ukraine: air defence units of the Army, Air Force, Territorial Defence Forces, State Special Transport Service, National Guard, Navy, State Border Guard Service and others.
“The most effective units are a priority,” says the Second Air Defence Frontier project’s website,. “Since the main routes of enemy missiles and drones are located in the northern and southern regions of the country, mobile fire groups are more likely to destroy them. In addition, the importance of using the MWG is growing where large air defence systems are more vulnerable to enemy attacks. Therefore, the need to disperse forces is greater near the border with Russia and the occupied territories. At the same time, units formed in one region can also serve in other regions. For example, the Mykolaiv unit performs tasks in the Kherson region, while the Chernihiv unit covers the whole of the country.”
“Come Back Alive has been working to strengthen Ukraine’s air defence since 2016. In particular, it has helped the Air Defence units of the Land Forces with the repair and modernisation of anti-aircraft missile systems, equipment of control rooms, and modern communications. This had a significant impact on the soldiers’ readiness to repel massive enemy attacks in the first critical weeks of the new stage of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022. Since then, the Foundation has expanded and scaled up its assistance to the Air Force.