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Your slice of the headlines in Ukraine. Daily. Tuesday, August 29, 2023.

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.

Friends and family gathered in Kyiv on Aug. 29 to bid a final farewell to pilot Andriy Pilshchykov, known by his call sign “Juice,” who tragically lost his life in an airplane crash in Zhytomyr Oblast, the national broadcaster Suspilne reported on Aug. 29.

Ukraine held a memorial ceremony on August 29 for Andriy Pilshchikov, one of the three pilots who died in a midair collision while on a training mission over the Zhytomyr region. Pilshchikov, who went by the call sign Juice, had become well-known after giving numerous interviews to international media in which he called for modern fighter jets to be provided to Ukraine.

The cap of a Ukrainian fighter pilot known as "Juice" sat atop his flag-draped casket Tuesday as mourners gathered to pay homage to the 29-year-old considered legendary by the countrys air force.

Andriy Pilshchykov died last week with two other pilots during a training flight over the northern Zhytomyr region - Copyright AFP/File Phill MagakoeThe cap of a Ukrainian fighter pilot known as “Juice” sat atop his flag-draped casket Tuesday as mourners gathered to pay homage to the 29-year-old considered legendary by the country’s air force. Andriy […]

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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.

The tragic collision of two L-39 training aircraft in Zhytomyr Oblast on Aug. 25, in which three Ukrainian pilots died, occurred almost immediately after takeoff, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne on Aug. 29.

Andriy Pilshchykov, known as Juice, killed in mid-air collision