"Robin Hood": Yevlash told what tasks were in the "Ghost of Kiev" at the beginning of the invasion of the Russian Federation

According to the speaker of the Air Force, in the first days of a full -scale war it was necessary to raise the morale of Ukrainians, as well as at the same time frightening the invaders. The collective image of the "pilot" coped with this. The Ukrainians got acquainted with the "Ghost of Kiev" in the first days of a full -scale invasion of Russia and for a long time thought to be who this character could be.

It was later revealed that it was only a collective image that was needed to scare away the enemy. In an interview with NV, speaker Ilya Yevlash told how this idea arose. According to him, the command appeared to create a collective image that could perform several functions at once. First of all, the "ghost of Kiev" was to support the spirit of the population, as well as to frighten the Russians who wanted to destroy Ukrainian aviation in the first hours of the invasion.

"They thought we had no aircraft, but we began to appear on the Internet video . . . We wrote:" The ghost of Kiev destroyed two planes. "They really destroy The image has taken root. Separately, the Air Force spokesman added that the combat departures were performed by the 40th Brigade of Tactical Aviation, which was located near Kiev at that time.

At that moment, it was not even known which pilots were on the planes, because there was a lot of information and at the same time it was necessary to stop the enemy offensive on the capital. "There was an information chaos, millions of messages, a 70-kilometer enemy column near Kiev, there a landing there, there helicopters . . . We had just an idea after reports of the first whipped Russian aircraft, but we did not know that it would gain such weight.