In 1968, with Soviet concerns increasing over the liberalising agenda of reformist First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Alexander Dubček, known as the Prague Spring, Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces prepared to carry out a military intervention. Moskvitelev was given command of three regular aviation regiments and flew with them to Czechoslovakia to carry out combat missions in support of the interventionist forces. After this, in late 1968, he was appointed deputy commander of the 4th Independent Air Defence Army and chief of army aviation at Sverdlovsk. In 1970 Moskvitelev completed his studies in absentia and graduated from the Air Defence Military Command Academy. By now a colonel, he was appointed deputy commander of the aviation component of the Moscow Air Defence District. After four years in this post he was advanced to commander of the district's aviation component, and became a member of its Military Council. In April 1977 Moskvitelev served as commander of the aviation component of the entire Soviet Air Defence Forces, succeeding twice Hero of the Soviet Union General-Colonel of Aviation Andrey Borovykh. He held this position for the next decade, also serving as deputy chairman and chairman of the State Commissions for the reception of new aviation equipment, during which time he oversaw the testing and introduction of the latest developments in Soviet aerospace designs, including the MiG-23, MiG-25, MiG-31, Su-27 and A-50. From March 1987 he served as the representative to the Headquarters of the Allied Forces of the Warsaw Pact countries, under Wolfgang Reinhold of the GDR's &lt;a href="Kommando%20LSK/LV"&gt;Kommando LSK/LV&lt;/a&gt;, until his retirement in 1990.