KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine on Sunday named all three air force pilots killed in a mid-air collision as leading figures paid tribute to well-known fighter ace 'Juice' killed in the crash.
This combination of undated handout photographs created on August 27, 2023 and released by the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade on August 27, 2023, shows Ukrainian pilot Vyacheslav Minka, Sergiy Prokazin and Andrii Pilshchykov, better known by his call-sign"Juice", who were killed in a mid-air collision involving two combat-training aircrafts on August 25, 2023 in the Zhytomyr region.
The crash involving two combat training aircraft on Friday marks a painful blow for Kyiv, which has been looking to secure advanced F-16 jets to modernise its Soviet-era air force. " was courageous, principled, uncompromising, actively spoke in the Western media, in particular on the issue of providing Ukraine with modern F-16 aircraft," his brigade said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky led tributes to the crash victims in an address Saturday, praising them as defenders of"Ukraine's free sky" and vowing an investigation into what happened.
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