Rostislav Lazarenko, the brother of the Ukrainian pilot on April 12, spoke about him.
Ivanov is one of the first Ukrainian pilots of the F-16-pilot-combat pilot, who made 130 combat flights with his combat family in the SU-25.
I remember that you were still young at the beginning of a complete invasion. I remember how I met with you in the early days: with an easy injury on my face after shelling, fatigue, but indestructible. In the most true sense, he was torn in the battle. Your courage and determination would be sufficient for many of our pilots, who, hiding from “no less important work”, remained aside, instead of putting his shoulder and performing a combat mission, Lazarenko writes.
He added that Ivanov never refused military missions. He calls the murdered strong pilot – without pathos, without bravado, reliable, with character.
Your combat route began with our combat family, and you never come down – neither me nor none of us. You were a real warrior, a man with a big heart. But the main thing is that you were and will remain part of our combat family forever – AFR, ”the brother wrote about Ivanov.
The perspective wrote that on April 12, 2025, the 26-year-old Pavel Ivanov was killed during a combat mission on the F-16 aircraft. He died in the battle, protecting his native land from the invaders.
Ukrainian pilots work both maximum human and technical capabilities each time, risking their lives, performing military missions. Pavel was one of them. All circumstances of the tragedy are established by the interdepartmental commission, which has already begun its work.
Source: Racurs
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