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Anonymous ID: d994e4 March 1, 2022, 10:33 p.m. No.15761046   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1066

The ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ Is The Mythical Hero Ukraine Needs Right Now

There is no evidence that a single MiG pilot shot down multiple Russian warplanes, but, historically, such legends are potent morale boosters.

By Thomas Newdick

February 25, 2022

 

 

As Russia’s widescale invasion of Ukraine grinds through its second day, there has been no shortage of claims and counterclaims about the situation in regards to the air war that’s taking place. So far, actual concrete evidence of aircraft lost in action, whether Russian or Ukrainian, has been limited, to say the least. Amid this confusing atmosphere, the story of the ‘Ghost of Kyiv,’ a heroic Ukrainian MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter pilot who has allegedly racked up an astonishing tally of aerial kills — six so far — while defending the capital he loves, has taken hold.

 

The story sounds fanciful in the extreme. That a single Ukrainian pilot, flying a jet that is thoroughly outnumbered and outclassed by the Russian opposition, has conducted daring flights over the capital city, in broad daylight, and in the process become an ‘ace in a day’ — something last known definitively to have been achieved in World War II — stretches the bounds of credibility.

 

While the odds are very much stacked against this narrative being true, there is the slimmest possibility that something truly extraordinary in the annals of air combat has taken place in the skies over Ukraine, even if it doesn’t include a pilot becoming an ‘ace in a day.’ Just achieving a couple of kills under such circumstances would have been a monumental accomplishment for the history books.

 

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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44453/the-ghost-of-kyiv-is-the-mythical-hero-ukraine-needs-right-now