The Ukrainian military liquidated Colonel of the Russian Aerospace Forces Vasily Kleschenko.
This is stated in a post distributed by the StratCom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"The body of the best helicopter pilot of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Colonel Kleshchenko, is in the wreckage of the Ka-52," the report says.
As noted on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Kleshchenko was the deputy head of the 344th center for combat use and retraining of the flight personnel of the Russian army aviation.
The liquidated Russian colonel also led a parade of helicopters over Red Square on May 9 last year, as evidenced by relevant publications in the Russian propaganda media.