“President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine Pilot Alexei Messa, who died during a large -scale Russian attack. The press service of the Presidential Office writes about it. The President posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine F-16 pilot Alexei Mesia, who died during a reflection of the Russian rocket attack on August 26, 2024. On board the fighter that day Ukrainian pilot destroyed three Russian”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine Pilot Alexei Messa, who died during a large -scale Russian attack.
The press service of the Presidential Office writes about it.
The President posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine F-16 pilot Alexei Mesia, who died during a reflection of the Russian rocket attack on August 26, 2024.
On board the fighter that day, the Ukrainian pilot destroyed three Russian winged missiles and one shock drone.
Recall that on August 26 last year, Ukraine was undergoing a large-scale air attack by Russia, in which one of the US F-16 fighters was lost.
During the operation, the pilot Alexei Mesa with the call sign “Munfish” began to enter a new enemy goal, when the connection with the plane was suddenly lost. Later it became known that the F-16 was disaster and the pilot was killed.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine created a special commission of the Ministry of Defense to investigate the causes of the disaster, which worked at the scene of the plane.
US media assume a possible breakdown of the aircraft or the pilot error as a probable cause of tragedy.
“Different versions, including” friendly fire “of their air defense, technical malfunction and mistake of the pilot are considered. But the reasons will be known only after the investigation is completed,” the media said the media.
The day before, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed decrees on awarding 301 Ukrainian warriors with state awards. Servicemen from different crews of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, of whom five Heroes of Ukraine, were grateful for the protection of the Motherland.
We will remind, on February 5 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy celebrated 99 defenders of Ukraine state awards.
Earlier, we wrote that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine 14 more servicemen, nine of them – posthumously.
