How did the Ghost of Kyiv die? Major Stepan Tarabalka killed in an air battle over Ukraine

[Fledermaus]

Major Stepan Tarabalka was killed when his MiG-29 was shot down on 13 March during a confrontation with multiple enemy aircraft.​

How did the Ghost of Kyiv die? Major Stepan Tarabalka killed in an air battle over Ukraine

May his death be avenged ten fold.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Heroiam slava!

 

[ChickenTendies]

No one except you two think this mysterious figure exists

 

[Fledermaus]

No one except you two think this mysterious figure exists

Incorrect. As usual.

 

[ChickenTendies]

Incorrect. As usual.

Ukraine urges people not to spread ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ myth

Incorrect. As usual.

 

[EMNofSeattle]

Major Stepan Tarabalka was killed when his MiG-29 was shot down on 13 March during a confrontation with multiple enemy aircraft.​

How did the Ghost of Kyiv die? Major Stepan Tarabalka killed in an air battle over Ukraine

May his death be avenged ten fold.

I heard he bailed out and linked up with a force of teenaged partisans known as “the росомахи” and is directing them now

 

[Litwin]

I heard he bailed out and linked up with a force of teenaged partisans known as “the росомахи” and is directing them now

as I expected Tovarishch Ivanov... , how is weather in Voronezh ?

 

[RetiredUSN]

Major Stepan Tarabalka was killed when his MiG-29 was shot down on 13 March during a confrontation with multiple enemy aircraft.​

How did the Ghost of Kyiv die? Major Stepan Tarabalka killed in an air battle over Ukraine

May his death be avenged ten fold.

I kinda thought you lost it with the covid situation, and now you are worshipping myths?

 

[Mr Person]

Major Stepan Tarabalka was killed when his MiG-29 was shot down on 13 March during a confrontation with multiple enemy aircraft.​

How did the Ghost of Kyiv die? Major Stepan Tarabalka killed in an air battle over Ukraine

May his death be avenged ten fold.

“Ghost of Kyiv is a superhero-legend whose character was created by Ukrainians,” Ukraine’s air force said Saturday, confirming that it was all a bit of mythmaking.​

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The news came two days after the Times of London identified the ghost as Maj. Stepan Tarabalka, a pilot who died March 13 in an air battle with Russian forces. The Ghost of Kyiv is one of the most successful pieces of propaganda promoting the prowess of the nation’s fighting forces and lifting morale. Although Ukrainian officials and former president Petro Poroshenko promoted the myth, the air force warned people to not “neglect the basic rules of information hygiene” and to “check the sources of information, before spreading it.”​

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Ukraine and Russia have been spreading propaganda during the war, with Ukraine focusing on hearts and minds internally and throughout the West. . . The Ukrainian air force said on Instagram that images of the ghost on social media are “a collective image of the pilots of the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade of Air Force, which protects the sky of the capital,” and that “they suddenly appear where they are not expected.”​

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/01/ghost-of-kyiv-propaganda/

First, give them hope. Then, when they find themselves repelling the enemy themselves, show them their strength.

Or maybe the fact of the myth was about to leak.

Or maybe that soldier really did all that, and they do not want to smash hope.

 

[Fledermaus]

I kinda thought you lost it with the covid situation, and now you are worshipping myths?

What exactly did I "lose"?

Ah, that's right. Nothing.

 

[StillBallin75]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/01/ghost-of-kyiv-propaganda/

Ironically it was Maj Tarabalka's death that allowed the Ukrainian AF to reveal that the "Ghost of Kyiv" wasn't a real individual.

 

[justoneman]

This whole war is myth and propaganda.