A new Russian movie tells the story of Russian pilot Lieut. Col. Oleg Anatolyevich Peshkov. "Sky" was recently screened in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Peshkov was killed when his fighter jet was hit by a Turkish Air Force missile and crashed in northern Syria six years ago.

The movie was first shown at the Hmeimim military base on the anniversary of the pilot’s killing. In Aleppo, an audience of Russian soldiers and some Russian nationals watched the film in a free screening. Peshkov was the first Russian pilot to be killed in Syria, since Russia’s military intervention alongside the Syrian government in late September 2015. The premiere took place on Nov. 21 at a movie theater in Yekaterinburg.

"Sky" was directed by the Russian director Igor Kopylov and produced by Trix Media Film Company in cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Defense and with participation by the Russia-1 TV channel. Actor Igor Petrenko plays Peshkov and Ivan Batarev appears as Capt. Konstantin Murakhtin, the navigator. Sergey Gubanov plays Maj. Vadim Zakharov, a Russian special operations soldier. Scenes were shot in Crimea in late 2020 as well as at the actual military facilities in Syria and Russia, including the Russian national defense center, the Lipetsk fighter pilot school and the Hmeimim military in Syria.

Inessa Yurchenko, producer of Trix Media, said at a press conference in Russia that "Sky" is the first film to tell the story of the Russian military operations in Syria.