Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Captain Pavlo Ivanov, aged 26, died on Apr. 12, 2025, during a combat mission flying ... number of F-16s delivered to Ukraine is unclear.

who died "while performing a combat mission" in an F-16 on April 12, the air force said. Another pilot, named by Ukraine as Oleksiy Mes, died while "repelling a massive Russian combined air and ...

But the F-16s have arrived and will soon see combat above the skies of Ukraine. Whether the F-16s ... preserved from the most dangerous action. “Official have said that the planes, at least ...