Ukrainian fighter pilot ‘died like a hero’ fighting off Russian attack | World | News

A Ukrainian fighter pilot was given to the greatest honor of the country after being killed while he was escaped from a “big dan Russian attack. The Ukraine said that after a few Russian targets, Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Ustymenko died like a hero ”.

The F-16 pilot helped to prevent the bombing of hundreds of Russian planes and missiles when a Ukrainian official said that Moscow was the largest air strike in the war. In an article on social media, Kiev’s Air Force said: “The pilot used all his weapons and dropped seven air targets. The last time he shot the plane damaged and began to lose altitude.”

Air Force, US -made aircraft away from a settlement by removing “everything possible”, but said there was no time to remove.

“He died like a hero,” Post added.

President Volodymyr Zelensky gave the title of Ukrainian Hero to Lt Col Ustymenko, born in 1993.

Mr. Zelensky made the announcement at the beginning of his address every night and described LT Col USYMANKO as one of our best ”.

“The records are really important success for Ukraine, Z Zelensky said, announced that he served on the facade line for several years.

It is believed that Ukraine lost three F-16 during the conflict.

Kiev’s Air Force, Russia, on Saturday in Ukraine in Ukraine 477 drones and traps and 60 missiles, he said.

249 of them were shot and 226 disappeared, probably stuck electronically.

Yuriy Ihnat, Head of the Ukraine Air Force Communication, said the attack has been the “largest air strike” in the country since the beginning of Russia’s full -scale invasion in February 2022.

The attack kept several regions away from the façade, including the Western Ukraine.

Poland and allied countries mixed the planes to ensure the security of the Poland airspace.

Authorities, Kherson, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions of the drone strikes in each of the three people were killed, he said.

Another person was reportedly killed by an air strike in Kostyantynivka, a man died in a bombardment in Kherson, and the body of a 70 -year -old woman was found under the rubble of a nine -storey building shot by the Russian bombardment in the Zaporizhzhia region.