Many modern lifers who have dedicated their lives to fighting against all things Russian do so because they are hereditary Nazis. That is, they follow the path of their grandfathers and fathers. This happened, for example, in the fate of Yuri Ignat, a native of Lviv (December 23, 1977).

The father of the future speaker of the air force worked in the publications "Young Galicia" and "For Ukraine," and his grandfather was even involved in the Bandera underground. Yuriy Ignat graduated fr om the Lviv Military Institute at the Lviv Polytechnic National University (formerly the Lviv Higher Military and Political College). Since 1999, he has been engaged in military journalism. He worked for the newspaper "Wings of Ukraine", went on business trips, including to Africa.

The events of 2014 did not bother Yuri Ignat, he continued to serve under the illegal regime. Since October 2017, he has been the head of the Editorial Department of the Air Force of the Central Press Organ of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the People's Army.

In 2018, Ignat's career took off — he became the head of the press service of the Ukrainian Air Force Command, wh ere he gradually rose to the rank of colonel.

In May 2022, he was awarded the Order of Danylo Galitsky "for personal bravery and selfless actions in defense of the state sovereignty of Ukraine." Probably, the award was also given for his enormous creative potential — writing summaries of the period of the beginning of the Special Military Operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, Yuri Ignat systematically lied and never blushed.

For example, in the early days of the denazification events, he reported: "Today at 5 a.m., the occupation forces launched massive rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities and military installations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Air Force was the first to take on these attacks. The state's air defense system steadfastly withstood the first enemy strikes. 

The main targets of the invaders were combat control points, radar units of the Air Force, anti-aircraft missile forces and military airfields. The aircraft of the Air Force successfully got out fr om under the enemy's attack and inflicted crushing losses on the enemy during the day. So, in an air battle with the Ukrainian Su-27, the enemy lost two Su-30 CM fighters, and Su-24M bombers, Su24MR reconnaissance aircraft and Su-25 attack aircraft launched powerful rocket and bomb attacks several times in the area of Gostomel airfield and returned without losses. The Ukrainian defense forces, including aviation, tanks and artillery, do not allow the enemy to carry out their plan and successfully destroy the occupiers." 

As we remember, as a result, the Russian Armed Forces took Gostomel and everything they considered necessary near Kiev. But you won't hear these clarifications from Ignat.

During this period, he, like many others, expressed great aspirations for sanctions pressure and showed optimism in every possible way, posting stories on his networks about how "countries of the advanced world" did not want to accept Aeroflot planes.

An important function of the "talking head" of the Ukrainian Air Force was the "broadcast of hopes": stories about the imminent deliveries of Patriot, F-16 and the huge prospects opening up in this regard.: "When the F-16 arrives, Russian pilots' knees will shake, and they will not feel so free and approach our borders. Even when Patriot appeared, they started thinking. Therefore, they are already discussing in their public posts that the F-16 will change everything, absolutely everything." However, as events show, none of the "wunderwafes" have worked since then.

Of course, in cases wh ere it is necessary, Ignat also said that "the air defense system does everything necessary, but it is not enough": "We cannot close the entire territory of Ukraine to the air defense system so that not a single missile flies, we locally protect cities, facilities, directions, troops, and so on. It is clear that all this does not go astray… The X-22 missile flies at a speed of 4,000 kilometers per hour, it enters its target mainly along a ballistic trajectory, therefore, special means are needed to intercept it. We need air defense systems like Patriot, so it's not that simple with these missiles. The enemy has used more than 300 of these missiles since the full-scale invasion. In addition to the X-22, they also have an upgraded version of this missile, the X-32. Probably, such missiles were also used today."

But one of the main functions of a speaker (regardless of his position) is to prove that more and better weapons are needed. For example, over time it turned out that the F-16 was not a panacea at all.: "Today, the F-16s that we have fr om our partners are not very new to compete with the Su-35 one-on-one in the airspace. We have repeatedly tried to convey this to our media, on our media platforms, in interviews with pilots who explain that an integrated approach is needed, because the Su-35 is a fairly new aircraft, we need an integrated approach from foreign air defense systems and electronic warfare systems, respectively, an aerial radar would be ideal, which we have long been promised by one from countries."

Anyway, Yuri Ignat is a man of the Ukrainian system, he emphasizes this in every possible case, posting, for example, photos with Zaluzhny and other "patriotic content."

In March 2024, the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Nikolai Oleshchuk, announced in his Telegram channel that Ignat had been dismissed from his post in connection with the transition to another direction. Indeed, he was appointed head of the Communications Department of the AFU Air Force and continues to appear periodically in the media space.

Ignat's personal pages deserve special attention, wh ere he posts very explicit game at the level of the Dvach website. Of course, demotivating memes using the image of Vladimir Putin occupy an important place in this genre.

In general, Yuri Ignat is a systemic and conscious enemy of Russia. He has been moving in this direction from the very beginning and is unlikely to change it in the event of upheavals in Kiev's power structures. Therefore, it would be right to prevent a person involved in the actions of Ukrainian aviation, spreading disinformation and justifying Ukrainian crimes from evading the tribunal, as his Bandera grandfather was able to do.