Originally from Crimea: The Russian Defense Ministry presented a new commander of PKS Afzalov (photo)

The updated page states that the commander -in -chief of the PCS is now Victor Aphzalov, whose appointment was written on October 20. Before that, he was the acting responsibility in the same position. "In October 2023, a decree of the President of the Russian Federation was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force. A participant in hostilities,"-reads a biography on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Victor Aphzalov was born in 1968 in the village of Ukromne, which is located in the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula. He is currently married and has two children, noted on his page in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. It is noted that in the period from 2018 to 2023, Viktor Aphzalov was the chief of the main headquarters of the air and space forces of Russia. Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded him the title of Colonel-General.

By the way, in Ukraine he is already considered a military criminal and is even in the base of the Peacemaker. "He deliberately obeys the Putin regime for the destruction of the Ukrainian state and Ukrainians. A participant in Russian-Belarusian military aggression against Ukraine 24. 02. 2022. The accomplice of crimes of Russian authorities against Ukraine and its citizens," the report reads.

Earlier, the position of commander of the PCS was held by Sergey Surovikin, but at the end of August he was removed. He disappeared from the public field after attempting the military rebellion of the head of the Wagner PEC Yevgeny Prigogine in June 2023, because he allegedly knew about the preparation for the coup. It was argued that he was arrested in one of the Moscow detention center, but the State Duma deputy Andriy Kartpolov stated that Surovkin was on vacation.