8th Air Defence Army
The 8th Separate Army of the Air Defence Forces (Military Unit Number 25342) was a Soviet military formation established in 1960. Army headquarters was in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR. The 8th air defense army was formed in March 1960 on the basis of the Kiev Air Defense Army on the basis of the Directive of the General Staff of the Air Defense Forces No. omu/1/454690 of 24.03.1960. Previously the Kiev Air Defence Region had air defence responsibility for the area. In 1988 it comprised the 49th and 60th Air Defence Corps. The last commander of the army , General-Lieutenant Mikhail Lopatin (1989–1992), became the first commander of the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces, and retired as a colonel-general. 49th Air Defence Corps, 1988. HQ: Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, 3.86 - 6.92 Units of the 49th ADC 1988 (Source Holm) In June 1992 the corps was taken over by Ukraine. 60th Air Defence Corps. The 60th Air Defence Corps was formed on 15 June 1989 with its headquarters at Odessa. It was taken over by Ukraine on 1 June 1992. Fighter Regiments of the 60th Air Defence Corps Among other units that were part of the corps was the 160th  Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade. The army as a whole was on Ukrainian territory when the Soviet Union dissolved and became the basis for the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces. From January 24, 1992, after the collapse of the USSR, 28th Air Defense Corps, previously subordinate to 2nd Air Defence Army was transferred under the 8th Air Defence Army. Some units of the army station in the Republic of Moldova were passed onto the Moldovan Armed Forces.