In Kropyvnytskyi and Dnipro, they said goodbye to the pilots who died in the Kherson region in the first days of a full-scale war. 42-year-old attack pilot, commander of the aviation squadron of the 299th tactical aviation brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Zhibrov and 25-year-old navigator of the aviation squadron of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Shcherbakov died on February 24 and 26, 2022 near Chaplinka, Kakhovka district. Local residents discovered their bodies and buried them first in the local cemetery. Attack pilot Alexander Zhibrov and navigator Alexander Shcherbakov who died in the Kherson region This is reported by the correspondent of the Center for Journalistic Investigations . Both pilots died when they directed their planes, shot down by the Russians, at the columns of enemy equipment near the village of Chaplinka. Alexander Zhibrov died on February 24, and Alexander Shcherbakov died on February 26, 2022. They were not the only soldiers who died in the first days of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine in the Kakhovka district of the Kherson region. According to a resident of Chaplinka, who participated in the search and burial of our defenders in the occupied village, the bodies of five dead were found then. “In addition to Alexander Zhibrov, we found the body of the deceased pilot Alexander Shcherbakov . They said that his plane was also shot down and he also sent it to a convoy of Russian equipment, but did not have time to eject in time and died. We also found the bodies of the dead border guards of the 79th border detachment of the State Border Service Andrei Bugrovenko, Alexander Potapovich and Anatoly Iozhits . The latter was taken by his mother and buried in the neighboring Kalanchak community of the Skadovsky district. And we buried the first two together with the dead pilots in our cemetery, ”said a resident of Chaplinka to the CZHR. The funeral ceremony of pilot Alexander Zhibrov in Kropyvnytskyi, 03/11/2023 Photo: facebook.com/krrada.official According to him, for permission to search for the bodies of the dead border guards and pilots, they had to turn to the so-called "commandant" Chaplinka, who introduced himself as "Aleksey Nikolaevich." The funeral ceremony of pilot Alexander Zhibrov in Kropyvnytskyi, 03/11/2023 Photo: facebook.com/krrada.official Recently, the bodies of both dead pilots were delivered to the controlled territory of Ukraine and carried out on their last journey. Alexander Zhibrov was buried on March 11 on the Alley of Honorary Military Graves of the Far Eastern Cemetery in Kropyvnytskyi. Alexander Shcherbakov was buried on March 13 in his native Dnieper. The funeral ceremony of pilot Alexander Zhibrov in Kropyvnytskyi, 03/11/2023 Photo: facebook.com/krrada.official For special courage and dedication shown in the defense of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, loyalty to the military oath, Oleksandr Zhybrov and Oleksandr Shcherbakov were posthumously awarded the Orders of Bogdan Khmelnytsky III degree.
Руси су превише глупи да схвате зашто се боре у Украјини, а Руси су превише ретардирани да би разумели украјински па певају на руском. Иди погледај чеченске ратне песме и реци на ком је мом језику. Слава НАТО тупий Серб
