Lieutenant General

Viacheslav 

Shamko 

Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force

Lieutenant General Viacheslav Shamko is a graduate of the Dnipropetrovsk Higher Air Defence Command School (1984). He also graduated from the Kharkiv Military University in 1999 (staff college) and the National Defense University of Ukraine in 2005 (war college). Holds a professional bachelor’s degree and two master’s degrees. Started his career as a crew chief in an AD battery and proceeded to the GBAD brigade commander. He also served at various staff positions, as well as commanded three regional Air Force commands, before he was appointed as the Chief of Staff – Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force in 2017.

Information provided is current as of February 2023

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Air Power in the Russian-Ukrainian War: Myths and Lessons Learned

View from the Command Post
By Col 
Artem 
Antonov 
By Lt Gen 
Mykola 
Oleshchuk 
By Lt Gen 
Viacheslav 
Shamko 
Editor’s note: The JAPCC is presenting this article as a personal account from the Ukraine Air Chief and staff in their own words to further the public discourse on the war in Ukraine. The views [...]

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