A Su-24M front-line bomber from the 7th Tactical Aviation Brigade named after Petro Franko crashed while on a mission in the Khmelnytskyi Region. The pilot and navigator were killed. The Ukrainian Air Forces Command reported this on Facebook on Tuesday, June 16.
The plane crash occurred around 7:00 p.m. The Su-24M front-line bomber, with a pilot and navigator on board, was carrying out a mission in the Khmelnytskyi Region.
"Unfortunately, both pilots were killed. We express our sincere condolences to the families of Major Bohdan Hryhorovych Zaharulko and Senior Lieutenant Bohdan Oleksandrovych Babenko; they defended our country until their last breath...,” the statement reads.
Rescue workers and law enforcement officers are currently working at the crash site to determine the circumstances of the plane crash. According to preliminary information, there were no civilian casualties.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Vladyslav Rykov, a pilot with the 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Forces, was killed in the war against the aggressor country, russia. Since the start of russia’s full-scale invasion, he had flown 385 combat missions.
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