Mykhailo Yuriiovych Matiushenko (Ukrainian: Михайло Юрійович Матюшенко, call sign – Did;[1] 8 January 1961, Kharkiv – 26 June 2022, over the Black Sea, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian entrepreneur and manager, serviceman, military and civil aviation pilot, colonel and commander of the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade[2][3] of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who participated in the Russo-Ukrainian War.

[4] He graduated with honors from the Hrytsevets Kharkiv Higher Military School of Pilots and also from the Gagarin Air Force Academy in Moscow.

[4] In 2018, he retired from the service and headed a commercial enterprise that operated in the field of agricultural aviation, and later in passenger transportation.

[4] After Russian forces retreated from northern Ukraine, Matiushenko converted from the MiG-29 fighter to the Sukhoi Su-24 bomber.

[6][3][4][1] He died on the morning of June 26, 2022 in the sky over the Black Sea near Zmiinyi Island during a combat mission.