A funeral ceremony is being held in Kyiv for a Ukrainian Air Force pilot, Andrii "Juice" Pilshchykov, who was tragically killed along with two other pilots in a plane crash in Zhytomyr Oblast on 25 August.
The pilots who tragically died in Zhytomyr Oblast on 25 August have been conferred military ranks, and they were nominated for state awards. Source: Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force; Ukrainian Air Force Quote from Oleshchuk: "The military pilots who tragically died during a combat mission in Zhytomyr Oblast on 25 August 2023 have been nominated for state awards.
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MOSCOW Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was formally confirmed dead on Sunday following genetic analysis, investigators said, as anger and questions over what caused his plane to crash earlier in the week continued to mount.Speculation that the Kremlin may have been involved in the crash has been rife, with the incident coming exactly two months after Wagner staged a