A US official confirmed that Ukraine lost the first of its F-16 fighter jets, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The crash happened on Monday, just weeks after the first of the US-made aircraft arrived in Ukraine, according to the report.
Initial reports indicate that the jet wasn’t shot down, but likely crashed due to pilot error, the official said. The incident occurred during a massive missile attack.
The Pentagon referred the newspaper to the Ukrainian Air Force for comment, but the Ukrainian Air Force wouldn’t confirm the crash or the status of the pilot.
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The US Department of Defense declined to comment on Ukraine’s first loss of a donated US-made F-16 fighter jet.
ReplyDelete"For this query we refer you to the government of Ukraine," a Pentagon spokesman said.
An unidentified US official told Reuters that the plane crash was not caused by Russian forces.
The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a US official, that Kiev for the first time lost one of the US-made fighter jets that had been donated shortly before. The official said the plane was not shot down and that the crash was likely caused by pilot error.
Один из переданных Украине истребителей F-16 потерпел крушение. Об этом пишет The Wall Street Journal со ссылкой на представителя властей США.
ReplyDeleteПо данным издания, американский самолет упал в понедельник, 26 августа. Отметим, что это первый разбившийся F-16, который Киев получил в рамках военной помощи в августе.
Предварительно, истребитель потерпел крушение во время удара ВС РФ по военным объектам на Украине. При этом причиной падения могла стать ошибка пилота.
Украинские власти пока официально не комментировали информацию. Ранее Владимир Зеленский заявил, что Украина впервые использовала истребители, чтобы сбить российские ракеты во время ударов.
Eine an die Ukraine übergebene F-16 ist am Montag abgestürzt - Wall Street Journal
ReplyDelete"Kiew hat vor kurzem sechs Kampfjets aus amerikanischer Produktion erhalten, ein wichtiges Symbol für die Unterstützung der USA", schreibt das WSJ.
The US Department of Defense cannot confirm that the F-16 fighter jet transferred to Ukraine was shot down by the Ukrainians themselves with a Patriot anti-aircraft missile system, said Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh.
ReplyDeleteA US-made F-16 fighter jet, handed over to Ukraine earlier this year, was downed by a Ukrainian Patriot air defense system in a friendly fire incident, Ukrainian lawmaker Maryana Bezuglaya said.
Delete"According to my information, the F-16 of the Ukrainian pilot Alexey ‘Moonfish’ Mes was shot down by the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system due to a lack of coordination between the [military] units," she wrote on Telegram.
The lawmaker criticized the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for falsely describing the incident as "a crash."