Three Ukrainian military pilots have been killed in a mid-air crash, with an investigation now underway to determine if flight preparation rules were correctly followed. This comes as Ukraine has expressed a breakthrough across the most difficult line of Russian defences in the south.
One of Ukraine's most celebrated fighter pilots and two other airmen have been killed in a mid-air crash.
President Zelenskyy also took the opportunity to express the importance of swift training of Ukrainian crews to fly up to 61 F-16 fighter jets promised by his western allies. "Guards from the United States, from the NATO and from other allied countries, they taught us basics. They taught us some specific tactics and some techniques to be, to be effective, but also from 2014 we are taught that we need to be very creative."
Assault battalion commander Nom de Guerre says they have raised the national flag in the settlement of Robotyne in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
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