President Zelensky signed a decree to establish a special command within the
Ukrainian Armed Forces to coordinate long-range strike operations against Russia
and concentrate all available resources to degrade Russian combat capability. He
ordered reforms of assault units to form a modern, technology-driven joint rapid
reaction force combining assault, artillery and unmanned combat assets for
faster frontline response, and appointed Brig. Gen. Dmytro Voloshyn to lead it.
Zelensky said constrained production capacity for US Patriot and European SAMP/T
air-defence systems have prompted plans to develop a domestic air-defence and
missile-interception capability.