{"id":123240,"date":"2022-02-25T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=123240"},"modified":"2022-02-25T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T15:00:18","slug":"a-21st-century-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=123240","title":{"rendered":"A 21st Century Ace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_123241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123241\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ghost-of-Kyiv-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ghost-of-Kyiv-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ghost-of-Kyiv-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ghost-of-Kyiv-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ghost-of-Kyiv-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ghost-of-Kyiv.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ghost of Kyiv<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rumor coming out of Ukraine is that a single Ukrainian Air Force pilot, driving a Mig-29 Fulcrum has downed six Russian aircraft in the skies over the besieged country&#8217;s capital. If true, he&#8217;s the first ace (five or more kills) of the 21st Century. He\/She would be the first ace since the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reports are coming that a Ukrainian pilot has shot down 6 Russian Aircraft today and might have possibly become the first 21st century fighter ace.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, known as \u201cthe Ghost of Kyiv\u201d and his MiG-29 were seen in numerous videos from today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2T7IXIGQAb\">pic.twitter.com\/2T7IXIGQAb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Visegr\u00e1d 24 ???????? (@visegrad24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visegrad24\/status\/1497033813284859929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumor coming out of Ukraine is that a single Ukrainian Air Force pilot, driving a Mig-29 &hellip; <a title=\"A 21st Century Ace?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=123240\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A 21st Century Ace?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,384,640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}