{"id":1367391,"date":"2026-03-09T17:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hero-of-ukraine-oleksandr-dovgach-died-during-a-combat-mission\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:05:11","slug":"hero-of-ukraine-oleksandr-dovgach-died-during-a-combat-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/hero-of-ukraine-oleksandr-dovgach-died-during-a-combat-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero of Ukraine Oleksandr Dovgach died during a combat mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"685\"><strong>Colonel Oleksandr Dovgach, commander of the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade, Hero of Ukraine, was killed in the Eastern direction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"687\" data-end=\"726\"> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/57563\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"728\" data-end=\"920\"> According to their data, the pilot died on March 9 while performing a combat mission. This happened in conditions of significant superiority in enemy aircraft and the powerful operation of its air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"922\" data-end=\"1070\"> The Air Force noted that Oleksandr Dovgach commanded the brigade and participated in combat operations from the first days of the full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1210\"> It flew hundreds of combat missions. During them, Ukrainian pilots struck control points, equipment, and communications equipment of Russian troops.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1212\" data-end=\"1315\"> The pilot also repeatedly covered strike and bomber aircraft, destroying enemy drones and missiles.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1317\" data-end=\"1433\"> Oleksandr Dovgach participated in the battles for the Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions, as well as in the battles for Zmiiniy Island.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1435\" data-end=\"1485\"> The circumstances of the soldier&#8217;s death are currently being established.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonel Oleksandr Dovgach, commander of the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade, Hero of Ukraine, was killed in the Eastern direction. This is reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to their data, the pilot died on March 9 while performing a combat mission. This happened in conditions of significant superiority in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1367374,"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-1367391","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\/1367391","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}