Wings Of Ash

War does not begin with fire — it begins with memory.



In the shadow of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Leonid Vostrikov is a young man bound by blood to the sky. The son of a fighter pilot killed in the 2014 Donbas War and the grandson of a Cold War ace who once flew above the mountains of Afghanistan, Leonid grows up with grief as his compass and duty in his bones.



From a quiet military town in the Urals to the brutal training grounds of Russia’s air force academy, Leonid’s journey is not one of glory — but of survival, loss, and painful growth. As the full-scale war erupts in 2022, he takes flight, facing NATO drones, Ukrainian aces, and the ghosts of his own past.



But when a near-fatal mission sends him to a Moscow military hospital, Leonid reconnects with the one person he thought he’d lost forever — a childhood friend turned military medic, who now holds the scalpel and the key to his broken heart.



This is not a story of superpowers or miracles. It is a story of men and machines, steel and spirit, love and legacy — written across the sky in contrails and blood.