Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismisses air force commander after F-16 fighter jet crash

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has fired the head of Ukraine’s air force a day after it emerged that a recently delivered F-16 jet had crashed earlier this week, killing the pilot. Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, did not give a reason for the dismissal of Mykola Oleshchuk, but spoke of the need to ‘protect’ the lives of those defending the country, suggesting the dismissal is probably related to the crash in which Lt Col Oleksiy Mes died

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