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Moonfish (pilot)
Oleksii Mes (20 October 1993 – 26 August 2024) was a Ukrainian fighter pilot with the call sign "Moonfish" of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He died when his F-16 crashed while repelling a Russian missile attack, according to the Ukrainian military. Biography Oeksii Mes was born in Shepetivka on 20 October 1993. As of June 2022, Moonfish was the commander of a squadron of Ukrainian MiG-29 fighters. In August 2023, Moonfish started a training course in the United Kingdom with plans to eventually fly an F-16. Advocacy efforts In June 2022, Moonfish visited the US with another Ukrainian pilot, call sign Juice, to lobby for F-16 The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine Multirole combat aircraft, multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it ...s for Ukraine. They met with several US lawmakers and explained which modern weapo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepetivka
Shepetivka ( uk, Шепеті́вка; pl, Szepetówka) is a city located on the Huska River in Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Shepetivka is the administrative center of Shepetivka Raion (district). It hosts the administration of Shepetivka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Shepetivka is an important railway junction with five intersecting transit routes. It is located 100 km away from Khmelnytskyi, the oblast's capital. The city is located near historic city of Izyaslav, the center of Ruthenian Zasławski princely estate. History A settlement called Shepetovka, belonging to the prince Ivan Zaslavsky, was first mentioned in a written document in 1594. In the 16th century Shepetivka didn't differ from other settlements of Volhynia. The settlement had a community and a windmill. It was given Magdeburg Rights at the end of the 16th century. This contributed the settlement's expansion and growing population. At the turn of the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
