On the morning of February 24, Russian missiles struck the airfield in Novyi Kalyniv, Lviv region. The 12th Army Aviation Brigade, named in honor of Viktor Pavlenko, which was based there, prepared for the Russian attack: on the night of the attack, helicopters were redeployed, and according to the military, all aircraft survived.
From the very beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, the military pilots performed combat missions: transporting ammo and weapons, destroying Russian military hardware and personnel in the Kyiv region, and then working in the Donetsk region. But the most difficult operation for the pilots were missions to Azovstal when Mariupol was already encircled. For their participation in this operation, the pilots of the 12th Brigade were awarded the title of "Heroes of Ukraine."
They delivered medicines, food, and weapons to Azovstal's defenders and evacuated the most severely wounded. However, not all of them returned from the dangerous mission.
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