From March 1943 until the end of the war Vladimir Sudets commanded the 17th Air Army.
[3] From 1943-45 it participated in the Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh Offensive, Left and Right Bank Ukraine operations, and the capture of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Austria.
In 1992 the air army became part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; by 1996 it appears to have been dissolved.
The 24th Air Army of the High Command (Operational Purpose) (24-я ВА ВГК ОН) was based in the area of responsibility of the Kiev Military District.
During peacetime it was subordinated directly to the Air Force High Command and in wartime it would transfer to the High Command of the South-Western Strategic Direction and deploy to airbases in Bulgaria and Romania and attack targets in Greece and Italy.
[11] The 24th AA took part in training exercises with the forces of the Kiev MD, which allowed for the military district's own 17th Air Army to become mostly a training formation with control over three air force officer schools and kept as a force-in-being, to convert its training air regiments into combat units during wartime.