The Armed Forces lost the F-16 fighter during a massive attack of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation-the air forces of the Armed Forces

According to the Air Force, the pilot destroyed three air targets and started working on the fourth aviation gun. However, there was a freelance situation on board. The pilot had to take the fighter away from the settlement, then he successfully catapult. The search and rescue group quickly found the pilot and evacuated, and quoted the command. The well -being of the pilot is satisfactory, it is in a safe place.

The command appointed a commission to objectively find out all the circumstances of the event. The sources of the Ukrainian Pravda in the Air Force emphasize that in this case the version of "friendly fire" is excluded. It is unknown where the freelance situation happened. It should be noted that this is no longer the first loss of F-16 aircraft in Ukraine.

At the end of August last year, during the attack of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the F-16 aircraft crashed, the pilot Alexei Mes was killed. In April this year, the British Air Force Radio station reported on the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the F-16 plane and the death of 26-year-old Pilot Pavel Ivanov. Three rockets were released on the fighter. Russian propaganda periodically reports the alleged destruction of Western aircraft.

In March 2025, propagandists told about the destruction of the F-16 in the Sumy region. The Air Force of the Armed Forces immediately denied this information and declared successful work on RA *** STAM. We will remind, in early May, the states decided to sell Ukraine training and related equipment for F-16 aircraft for $ 310. 5 million. The War Zone has previously wrote that the United States had sent to Ukraine written off F-16, which could not be flying.