 Three Ukrainian military pilots including a mega-talent who yearned to fly F-16s were killed on August 25, when two L-39 combat training aircraft collided over a region west of Kiev on Friday, the Air Force said on Saturday. President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was counting on swift training of crews to fly up to 61 F-16 fighter jets promised by his Western allies, said in his nightly video address that the three men included Andriy Pilschakov, Kulsayn Juz, a Ukrainian officer, one of those who greatly helped our state. Air Force spokesperson Yuri Yenet described Pilschakov, who was fluent in English, and aged 29 when Reuters interviewed him last year as a mega-talent and leader of reforms. Zelensky offered condolences to the pilot's families and added, Ukraine will never forget anyone who defended the free skies of Ukraine. Guys from the United States, from the NATO and from the other allied countries, they taught us basics, they taught us some specific tactics and some techniques to be effective. But also from 2014, we are taught that we need to be very creative, we need to be tactically flexible and just to adapt with conditions, with requirements of situations.