A 61-Year-Old Ukrainian Bomber Pilot Came Out Of Retirement To Fight The Russians—And Died Liberating Snake Island

A Ukrainian air force Su-24. Wikimedia Commons Mykhailo Matyushenko flew for the Soviet air force in Afghanistan in the 1980s. When Ukraine split from the Soviet Union in 1991, Matyushenko—a native of...

Ukrainian Scouts Were In Their Foxholes Near Bakhmut When A Russian Bomber Came Crashing Down

The wreckage of a Russian Su-24 bomber near Bakhmut. Ukrainian army photo A Ukrainian army reconnaissance battalion was directly below when, on the night of Dec. 2, allied forces around Bakhmut in eas...

Where Is Ukraine Getting Its Bombers?

A Ukrainian Su-24 in July 2022. Social media capture The Ukrainian air force apparently has lost all but one of the dozen or so Sukhoi Su-24 bombers it had in active service before Russia widened its ...