Two L-39 training planes came down west of Kyiv, says air force, with Andriy Pilshchykov, advocate of Ukraine getting F-16s, among the dead
Three Ukrainian military pilots, including one nicknamed Juice who campaigned for the supply of F-16s, were killed on Friday when two combat training aircraft collided over a region west of Kyiv, Ukraine’s air force said.
“You can’t even imagine how much he wanted to fly an F-16,” Ihnat wrote online. “But now that American planes are actually on the horizon, he will not fly them.” In 2022, he and another Ukrainian pilot, callsign Moonfish, met with reporters in Washington as part of a push for Ukraine to receive western fighter jets and equipment. Juice was supposedly given the nickname by American pilots during a joint training exercise, because he would not drink alcohol.
Radio Svoboda shared video of blackened, mangled aircraft remains being removed from a field far from the frontlines at the village of Sinhury, about 10km south of Zhytomyr and about 150km west of Kyiv.
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