Commander of the Air and Air Defence Forces (Belarus)

The Commander of the Air and Air Defence Forces is the administrative head in the Belarusian Air Force, and is under the Chief of the General Staff and the Ministry of Defence. The current Commander of the Air and Air Defence Forces is Major General Andrei Lukyanovich.

List of commanders No.NameRankTermNotesTook officeLeft officeDuration1Oleg PaferovLieutenant General12 December 200116 November 2006The first commander after unification of the Forces2Igor AzarenokMajor General16 November 200611 January 2011Dismissed for corruption3Sergey LemeshevskyMajor General6 May 201120 February 2012Dismissed for systematic non-fulfillment of the terms of his contract4Dmitry PakhmelkinMajor General20 February 201231 July 2012Dismissed after a Swedish amateur single-engine aircraft violated Belarusian airspace unopposed5Oleg DvigalevMajor General10 September 201218 July 20176Igor GolubMajor General31 August 201718 November 20227Andrey LukyanovichMajor General13 December 2022Incumbent

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