Operation Northern Falcon

[1] The operation has been conducted for ten years in a row as part of the memorandum of understanding between the Ukrainian and Danish defence ministries.

Two flight crews, led by commanders Guard Lieutenant Colonel Vadym Yeroshkin and Vlodymyr Buhalskyi, engineering staff of the airlift brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force, deployed in Melitopol.

[2] On 14 March 2019, Operation Northern Falcon 2019 on fuel transportation to the island of Greenland began and lasted until April that year.

In the framework of the operation, a group of Ukrainian aviators, with Colonel Serhii Artemenko as a Detachment Commander, has left Ukraine from the military platform of Boryspil International Airport to the Kingdom of Denmark by the aircraft Il-76MD.

[1] In Greenland, Ukrainian military pilots perform tasks in difficult Arctic climatic conditions: −50 °C air temperature, wind speed of 15–20 metres per second and without ground-based radio navigation equipment and spare airfields.