In the Lviv region, a native of Sambir, helicopter pilot Maxim Fedorov, was taken on his last journey. The lieutenant colonel died on December 11 in the battles for Bakhmut.
Maxim Fedorov is an experienced officer with combat experience, a lieutenant colonel in the 12th separate brigade of army aviation named after cornet general Viktor Pavlenko, a military pilot of the 1st class, - reports Sambir city council. Defended the eastern borders of Ukraine from invaders and separatists since 2014, was a member of peacekeeping missions in Liberia and Cote Divuar. In 2018, he retired from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and continued to work as a helicopter pilot. Already being a civilian pilot, he helped the civilian population of Sudan, Somalia, Mali and Afghanistan.
With the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Maxim Fedorov voluntarily returned to military service and carried out combat missions in the hottest spots.
“For the brilliant performance of duties, loyalty to the oath to the Ukrainian people, courage and patriotism, they were repeatedly awarded with awards from the brigade command and the high command. Maxim Fedorov is a cavalier of the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky III degree.
The hero is forever 44 years old. The mother lost her son, the wife lost her loving husband. Three children were left without a father. Lieutenant Colonel Maxim Fedorov was buried with full honors on the land of the Heroes of the Ukrainian Main Liberation Council in the village of Sprinya, in the homeland of his wife.
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Source: Fakty
