By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) - Hundreds of Ukrainians attended a church ceremony on Tuesday to pay their last respects to a celebrated fighter pilot ...
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"Unfortunately the number of deaths is already so high, but every death is painful," said Natalia Menesheva, a dentist who attended the ceremony in Kyiv's main Greek Catholic cathedral. Six soldiers in uniform unloaded his coffin from a green van and brought it inside the cathedral as its large bell tolled. His girlfriend, ashen-faced, looked down and sobbed.
Since Russia's 2022 invasion, he had travelled to the U.S. in a delegation seeking supplies of F-16 fighter jets. A U.S. general said last week Ukraine was likely to receive the jets soon.
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