Deputy aviation commander / head of the Vostok air force command, Ivan Petrenko, was killed in a crash of a Su-27 fighter during military drills in Vinnytsia region.
Press service of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has said this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
The data on the second pilot will be provided later.
The plane crashed in a field near the population center of Ulaniv on October 16 at about 5 p.m.
No casualties among civilians have been reported.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Ukraine's Su-27 fighter crashed during a training flight in Vinnytsia region on October 16.
The statement reads that the fighter crashed near the village of Ulaniv at about 5 p.m.
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