{"id":2013635,"date":"2023-08-27T15:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T19:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/air-disaster-kills-three-warplane-pilots\/"},"modified":"2023-08-27T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T19:21:12","slug":"air-disaster-kills-three-warplane-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/air-disaster-kills-three-warplane-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Three warplane pilots killed in air disaster."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fair-disaster-kills-three-warplane-pilots%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013635&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Air Disaster Kills\u200b Three\u200b Warplane Pilots<\/h2>\n<p>In a tragic incident, three pilots lost their \u200blives in a midair collision \u2063between two warplanes in\u200c western Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities \u2063have \u2063launched an investigation to determine the cause of \u2062the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred during \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/march-13-national-military-k9-veterans-day-commemorates-first-day-of-training-for-armys-war-dog-program-in-1942\/\" title=\"March 13: National Military K9 Veterans Day, commemorates first day of training for army\u2019s war dog program in 1942\">combat mission<\/a> over Ukraine&#8217;s western Zhytomyr region. Two L-39 training military aircraft were involved in the incident. Among the pilots killed\u2062 was\u200c Andriy Pilshchykov, a well-known advocate for Ukraine\u200c acquiring F-16 fighter jets, who was affectionately \u2062known as &#8220;Juice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy paid tribute to\u2063 Pilshchykov, recognizing his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">significant contributions<\/a> to the country. The other two pilots who lost their lives were identified as \u2062Viacheslav Minka and \u200dSerhiy Prokazin.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Russian\u200b forces targeted central and northern regions of Ukraine with cruise missiles. Ukraine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/air-disaster-kills-three-warplane-pilots\/\" title=\"Three warplane pilots killed in air disaster.\">air defenses successfully intercepted<\/a> four \u2062of them, but falling debris\u2064 damaged several homes and injured two people in the Kyiv region.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s \u2062Defense Ministry\u2063 claimed to have hit an airfield in the Kyiv region, although Ukrainian officials\u2062 have not yet responded to this assertion.<\/p>\n<p>In Kyiv, relatives of soldiers captured by Russian forces in Mariupol gathered for a rally, demanding the safe return of their\u200b loved ones. In\u2062 Russia, the \u200dDefense Ministry reported shooting down two \u2062drones \u200bnear\u200c the border \u2064with Ukraine, accusing the \u200d&#8221;Kyiv regime&#8221; of \u2062attempting terrorist attacks on Russian soil.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst these developments, it is important to note that this story \u2063has been reviewed \u200bby The Western Journal and may have been edited to meet their editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/us-gives-full-support-approval-f-16-fighter-jets-ukraine-denmark-netherlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine&#8217;s Air Force\u200b Spokesman on\u2063 Western Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/zelenskyy-blames-west-ukraines-failure-start-counteroffensive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on \u200cWestern Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-air-disaster-kills-three-warplane-pilots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Western Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>collided in the western region of Ukraine, resulting in the tragic deaths of three pilots. An investigation has been initiated by the authorities, led by Ukraine&#8217;s air force spokesman Yuri Ihnat. The duration of the probe remains uncertain. The incident was reported on the air force&#8217;s Telegram page, stating that two L-39 training military planes were involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2013636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}