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		</div><p>Ukrainian authorities have launched an investigation after a mid-air collision between two warplanes in the west of the country killed three pilots.</p>
<p>Air force spokesman Yuri Ihnat told Ukrainian television on Sunday it was not immediately clear how long the inquiry would take.</p>
<p>According to the air force’s Telegram page, two L-39 training military aircraft collided during a combat mission over Ukraine’s western Zhytomyr region on Friday.</p>
<p>Three pilots were killed, including Andriy Pilshchykov, a well-known pilot with the nickname “Juice” who was an outspoken advocate for Ukraine getting F-16 fighter jets.</p>
<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky in his nightly address on Saturday paid tribute to Mr Pilshchykov, describing him as a “Ukrainian officer, one of those who helped our country a lot”.</p>
<p>On Sunday, Ukraine’s Vasilkiv tactical aviation brigade identified the other two pilots killed in the collision as Viacheslav Minka and Serhiy Prokazin.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Russian forces targeted central and northern regions of Ukraine with cruise missiles overnight.</p>
<p>Ukraine’s air force said on Sunday that air defences had successfully intercepted four of them.</p>
<p>In the Kyiv region surrounding the Ukrainian capital, the falling debris damaged a dozen private homes and wounded two people, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said.</p>
<p>Russia’s Defence Ministry said in a statement that it targeted – and successfully hit – an airfield in the Kyiv region. Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment on the claim.</p>
<p>In Russia, the Defence Ministry reported bringing down two drones over the Bryansk and Kursk regions that border Ukraine.</p>
<p>The drones, the ministry said, were launched by “the Kyiv regime” in “yet another attempt at terrorist attacks” on Russian soil.</p>
<p>Kursk Governor Roman Starovoit, however, reported that a drone slammed into a multistorey residential building in the region’s capital.</p>
<p>It was not immediately clear if it crashed after being shot down by air defences, as reported by the Defence Ministry, or was targeting the building.</p>
<p>Mr Starovoit said no-one was hurt, but a number of windows were shattered.</p>
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