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A Ukrainian pilot was killed and his F-16 fighter jet crashed as after Russia launched a huge aerial assault involving hundreds of drones and scores of missiles overnight, the Ukrainian military said on Sunday.
The airman, named as 1st Class Lt. Col. Maksym Ustymenko by the Ukrainian air force, was the third F-16 pilot killed since the Ukrainians began flying the jets last summer, and his plane was the fourth F-16 Ukraine has lost since then.
The air force said Ustymenko “did everything he could to steer the aircraft away from a populated area, but he did not have time to eject.”
Ustymenko’s death is a major loss for Ukraine. Only a…
