Olya Ivleva is a regional reporting fellow for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
Soldiers came to the village of Sinhury in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region on August 26 to clear the debris of military planes that crashed a day earlier. Three pilots died as a result of the midair collision of two L-39 Albatros aircraft during a training flight.
Three Ukrainian Air Force pilots were killed as two L-39 planes collided in the air during a training flight on August 25, Ukrainian authorities have announced. On August 26, RFE/RL interviewed locals who had witnessed the crash in the village of Sinhury, in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region.
Cooperation between Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces and Main Intelligence Directorate on a "humanitarian aid" mission led to the State Border Service authorizing an indicted Ukrainian politician to leave the country, Schemes, the investigative unit of RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, has found.
