Yuriy Cherevashenko became the deputy commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Yurii Cherevashenko participated in the creation of the first group of mobile air defense rapid response brigades, was involved in interceptor drones, and in his new position should scale the development of the unmanned component in the Air Force. It is known from open sources that in the early 2010s, Cherevashenko was the chief of staff of a separate radio engineering battalion of the Rivne garrison.
This unit was part of the 13th Army Corps, on the basis of which the Operational Command "North" appeared in 2013. And on the eve of the full-scale Russian invasion, in the summer of 2021, he already had the rank of colonel and was the deputy of the air defense department of the Ground Forces Command. It will be recalled that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced an increase in the production of interceptor drones.
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