Hundreds of Ukrainians attended a church ceremony on Tuesday to pay their last respects to a celebrated fighter pilot with the callsign Juice who was killed in an air disaster during training.
The death of Andriy Pilshchykov, 30, a poster boy for Ukraine's air force who lobbied Western governments for supplies of F-16 fighter jets, was a bitter blow for Ukraine's military as it battles Russia.
Standing beside her were his mother and a young man in an air force pilot's jumpsuit who held up a photo of him, his head bowed. "He really wanted to train on F-16s, and as I understand it he was supposed to go and train on this plane very soon… he just didn't make it to this moment that he dreamed about," said Yulia Reshitko, a friend of Pilshchykov's girlfriend.
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