Tiphini Axtell

Sep 2, 2024 | escapeartist.com | Paul Benjamin Osterlund |Rachael Marie Collins |Joel Nagel |Tiphini Axtell

For most of 2023, my bedroom window looked out onto a 30-foot-tall, blue-gray mural of the heroic Ghost of Kyiv. Word of the flying ace’s exploits spread like wildfire in the days after Russia’s late February 2022 invasion. He was said to have downed six Russian aircraft as enemy forces attempted to take the capital.