{"id":1253680,"date":"2025-06-29T20:45:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-awarded-the-title-of-hero-of-ukraine-to-the-deceased-f-16-pilot-maksym-ustymenko\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T20:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:45:33","slug":"zelenskyy-awarded-the-title-of-hero-of-ukraine-to-the-deceased-f-16-pilot-maksym-ustymenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-awarded-the-title-of-hero-of-ukraine-to-the-deceased-f-16-pilot-maksym-ustymenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to the deceased F-16 pilot Maksym Ustymenko"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to Maksym Ustimenko, an F-16 pilot who died while repelling a large-scale Russian attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He announced<\/span><\/a> this<\/span> in an evening video address.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have just signed a decree awarding the title of Hero of Ukraine to Maksym Ustymenko, a Ukrainian pilot, one of our best pilots. Unfortunately, posthumously,\u201d Zelenskyy noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

He emphasized that he died while covering the Ukrainian sky and saving people from another enemy attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

The President added that Maksym Ustimenko has been fighting since the ATO. He has mastered four types of aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n

“He has really important results for Ukraine. It hurts to lose such people. My condolences to his family, loved ones, friends and brothers. Eternal memory!” Zelenskyy summed up.<\/span><\/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

By the way, 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

Also follow \u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on Facebook<\/a> , Twitter<\/a> , Telegram<\/a> , and Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to Maksym Ustimenko, an F-16 pilot who died while repelling a large-scale Russian attack. He announced this in an evening video address. \u201cI have just signed a decree awarding the title of Hero of Ukraine to Maksym Ustymenko, a Ukrainian pilot, one of our best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1253526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1253680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253680","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253680\/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=1253680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}