On May 17th, 2024, a pilot of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade from the Ukrainian Air Force — Lieutenant Colonel Denys Vasylyuk (in a Sukhoi Su-27 ‘Flanker’ multirole jet) was shot down/killed in action over the Eastern Front.

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1. 🕯️💔 On May 17th, 2024, a pilot of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade from the Ukrainian Air Force — Lieutenant Colonel Denys Vasylyuk (in a Sukhoi Su-27 ‘Flanker’ multirole jet) was shot down/killed in action over the Eastern Front.

   Ukrainian Air Force pilot, Denys had flown dozens of combat sorties, since the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022.

   https://x.com/maks_nafo_fella/status/1791812711988314119?s=46

   https://x.com/gloooud/status/1791819987293786439?s=46

2. Rest in Peace!!

3. HEROYAM SLAVA!

4. He died fighting the world’s cancer, so he is a global hero

5. This would please Xi.

6. RIP WARRIOR.

7. Vechna pamet!

8. Fighting the enemy in the sky since day one of the invasion. Huge loss. RIP hero.

9. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
   And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
   Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
   of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
   You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
   High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,

   I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
   My eager craft through footless halls of air ….
   Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
   I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
   Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
   And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
   The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
   Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

   Heroiam Slava!

10. RIP hero

11. RIP