{"id":1253531,"date":"2025-06-29T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/f-16-pilot-maksym-ustimenko-died-while-repelling-a-russian-attack-what-is-known-about-him\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T12:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:02:34","slug":"f-16-pilot-maksym-ustimenko-died-while-repelling-a-russian-attack-what-is-known-about-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/f-16-pilot-maksym-ustimenko-died-while-repelling-a-russian-attack-what-is-known-about-him\/","title":{"rendered":"F-16 pilot Maksym Ustimenko died while repelling a Russian attack: what is known about him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian F-16 pilot Maksym Ustimenko, who died while repelling an air attack by Russian forces on June 29, was a classmate of another Ukrainian pilot, Andriy (Dzhus) Pilshchikov, who died two years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was told by<\/a> Dzhus’s mother Liliya Averyanova.<\/p>\n

She described Ustymenko as a “boy of steel” who “always strived to be the best.” He had studied with her son since the first year.<\/p>\n

“He was the super-intelligence of the group, a wonderful IT guy. But he had big, strong wings. Great responsibility. Great dedication. He should have become an Air Marshal,” Averyanova wrote.<\/p>\n

The wife of another Ukrainian pilot, Oleksiy Mesya (Munfish), reported that Ustymenko is survived by a 4-year-old son.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on the death of the pilot:<\/p>\n

“Today he destroyed seven air targets. My condolences to his family and comrades. I have instructed to investigate all the circumstances of the death. Ukrainian aviation heroically defends the sky. Thank you to everyone who defends Ukraine.”<\/p>\n

The Head of State also emphasized that Ukrainian aviators continue to courageously perform combat missions, despite high risks and losses.<\/p>\n

Recall that at night, while repelling a large-scale air attack from Russia, pilot 1st class Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Ustimenko, who was piloting an F-16 aircraft, was killed.<\/a><\/p>\n

As reported, on the night of June 28-29 , Russia carried out a massive air strike on Ukraine, using 537 different means of attack<\/a> . Ukraine’s air defenses managed to neutralize 475 of them.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian F-16 pilot Maksym Ustimenko, who died while repelling an air attack by Russian forces on June 29, was a classmate of another Ukrainian pilot, Andriy (Dzhus) Pilshchikov, who died two years ago. This was told by Dzhus’s mother Liliya Averyanova. She described Ustymenko as a “boy of steel” who “always strived to be the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1253526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1253531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1253526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}