A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter crew of four was killed while carrying out a combat mission to intercept Russian drones near the village of Starytsivka in the Poltava region.On Monday, the Brody City Council confirmed the deaths of Captain Yuriy Voron, Major Valentyn Mukshynov, Senior Lieutenant Bohdan Khmil, and Junior Sergeant Mykhailo Deriaha, all servicemen of the 16th Separate Army Aviation Brigade “Brody.” The council confirmed that they died on June 30 and announced a farewell ceremony for the fallen crew to take place on Tuesday.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.“They fulfilled their military duty to the very end, defending Ukrainian skies, covering our infantrymen, supporting combat units, and saving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers,” the city council’s statement read, adding that “their courage, professionalism, and self-sacrifice will forever remain in the memory of a grateful nation.”Funeral service planned in BrodyDefenders will be met at 9:30 a.m. at the Alley of Heroes, after which a farewell ceremony will be held at the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, according to the Brody City Council. The community extended its condolences to the families, friends, and brothers-in-arms of the fallen servicemen.Decorated records of the crewVoron, born in Brody in 1996, graduated from the Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force University and gained his first combat experience during the Joint Forces Operation, according to ZMiST, Poltava based news media. Since the start of the war, he carried out dozens of combat sorties, and was awarded the Orders of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, II and III class, along with the Order of Danylo Halytsky.Mukshynov, born in Kyiv in 1991, trained at the same Kharkiv university and previously served in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Reportedly, he fought in earlier conflicts in Donetsk and Luhansk before the full-scale invasion began and held full honors of the Order “For Courage.”