Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Zhybrov, commander of an aviation squadron of Ukraine's 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade, was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. Oleksandr lost his life on February 24, 2022, helping to slow the Russian advance - he steered his damaged Su-25 toward a column of Russian occupiers. Oleksandr gave his life so Ukraine could fight. I am sharing this story because I want to emphasize that Russia did not capture Ukraine in three days not because Russia "got stuck in the mud" or something like that - Russia didn't take Ukraine because Ukraine refused to be taken and we fought with everything we had, and have been fighting ever since. From the first minutes of Russia's full-scale invasion, Oleksandr organized the relocation of his squadron and its equipment to a designated operational airfield to protect them from Russian strikes. Later that day, Zhybrov was among the first Ukrainian pilots to engage Russian forces from the air. Oleksandr flew a Su-25 ground-attack aircraft over Kherson region. His mission was to stop Russian forces advancing from temporarily occupied Crimea. Near Chaplynka, Zhybrov dropped bombs on a Russian military column. He then spotted engineering vehicles used to establish river crossings and decided to launch a second attack. During the attack, his Su-25 was hit by Russian air defenses. With his aircraft on fire and nearly uncontrollable, Oleksandr steered it directly into the remaining Russian vehicles. He attempted to eject, but there was not enough altitude for a safe ejection. Eternal memory and eternal glory to Ukrainian Hero.