From battlefront waves to heartfelt gifts: A young boy's encounter with Ukrainian pilots
A boy living near the front waved at the Ukrainian military personnel flying above him, waving them with a flag. The pilots decided to reciprocate and landed in a nearby field, giving him toys, sweets, and food for his family.
6 April 2024 19:21
Ukrainian military personnel decided to reciprocate the support shown to them. When they flew helicopters on a mission, the boy living near the front supported them each time by waving the Ukrainian flag.
The military helicopter pilots decided to land near the boy and personally thank him for his support. The military did not come empty-handed; they delivered toys, sweets, and food for his family, according to Ukrainian media.
Night attack on Ukraine
Saturday marks another day of intense shelling of Russian targets in Ukraine. In Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia alone, 10 people died.
The Ukrainian air defence shot down two Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles, a Kalibr cruise missile, and 28 out of 32 Shahed-131/136 drones, with which Russian forces attacked Ukraine overnight from Friday to Saturday, informed the commander of the Ukrainian air forces, General Mykola Oleschuk.
"Russian occupiers attacked with 32 Shahed-131/136 drones from the vicinity of Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Kursk, as well as six different types of missile rockets: three anti-air S-300 guided missiles from the Belgorod region, two Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles from strategic aviation aircraft from the Saratov region, and one Kalibr cruise missile from the Black Sea" - wrote the commander on Telegram
One of the attack directions was Odesa, where a missile launched by a Russian bomber over the Black Sea was shot down.
