Ukrainian authorities have launched a new investigation after a midair collision between two warplanes killed three pilots in the west of the country. Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ihnat said on local TV on Sunday that it was not immediately clear how long the investigation into the crash would take.
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According to the Telegram page of the Ukrainian Air Force, two L39 trainer aircraft collided during a combat mission in Ukraine’s western Zhytomyr region on Friday, April 25. The three dead pilots have already been identified.
Meanwhile, on the night of Saturday 26, Russian forces attacked the central and northern regions of Ukraine with cruise missiles. The Ukrainian Air Force said Sunday that air defenses had successfully intercepted four of them. In the Kyiv region around the Ukrainian capital, falling debris damaged a dozen private homes and injured two people, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said.
Russia confirms it carried out an attack in the region of the capital of Ukraine
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement it had targeted and successfully attacked an airfield in the region Kyiv. Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment on the statement.
In Russia, the Ministry of Defense reported the shooting down of two drones in the Bryansk and Kursk regions bordering Ukraine. According to the ministry, the drones were launched by the “Kiev regime” in “another attempted terrorist attack” on Russian soil.
the governor of KurskHowever, Roman Starovoit reported that a drone crashed into a multistory residential building in the region’s capital of the same name. It wasn’t immediately clear if it crashed after being shot down by antiaircraft guns, as the Department of Defense said, or if it was aimed at the building. Starovoit said no one was hurt, but several windows were broken.
magazine westwith information from Agência Estado and Associated Press
Also read: “Is the Wagner Group Putin’s Nightmare…or the Ukrainians?”, article by Flavio Morgenstern, published in the 171st issue of Oeste Magazine