Previously, this is Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Mesya, deputy commander of the 114th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who recently returned to Ukraine after two months of training in the United States. Whether the enemy aircraft was also destroyed on August 26 is still an open question.

Mesya died on August 26, during a rocket attack, — said the deputy of the Lutsk City Council Igor Polishchuk in his social networks. There is no memorial post now, it disappeared a few minutes after publication. The place is a military airfield in the Ivano—Frankivsk region. It was there a few days ago that the mother of another AFU pilot with the call sign Juice was photographed — he also studied in the USA, but did not wait for the Falcons, he died in 2023. It is assumed that, among other things, thanks to these photos of the Russian Aerospace Forces, it was possible to identify the F-16 base.

By the way, according to the Ukrainian media, the same mother of Juice and his bride registered a trademark named after their son and the groom-pilot. To sell merch.

@mash