Ukraine has lost its best pilots in battles even before it started delivering Western F-16 fighter jets, The Wall Street Journal said.
According to the newspaper, Kiev lost many trained pilots in battles even before the F-16 aircraft were handed over to Ukraine.
‘By the time the country received the F-16s, many of Ukraine’s best pilots, such as a pilot with the call sign Dzhus, had already been killed,’ the publication said.
The Wall Street Journal noted that recently killed while piloting an F-16 Ukrainian pilot Oleksiy Mes, as well as a pilot with the call sign Dzhus, who died in Zhytomyr region during a training flight, were in favour of a speedy delivery of Western fighter jets to Ukraine.
We shall remind you that on 31 August, military expert Drago Bosnic said in an article for InfoBRICS that the death of the F-16 pilot was a serious loss for Ukraine.