Ukraine lost a F-16 plane in a Russian forces attack. The pilot's last gesture before death
An Ukrainian pilot was killed, and his F-16 hunting plane was lost while rejecting a large night attack with rockets and drones launched by Russia, the Ukrainian army announced on Sunday.
The plane was lost after the archive photo attack
According to her, it is the third F-16 aircraft lost during the war, reports Reuters.
“The pilot used all the weapons on board and shot down seven air targets. As he downed the last one, the aircraft was damaged and began to lose altitude.”they sent the Air Force on the Telegram app.
The quoted source states that the pilot did everything he could and managed to remove the plane from an inhabited area, but did not have time to catapult.
The army also announced that Russia launched 477 drones and 60 missiles of different types over the night, of which Ukrainian forces destroyed 211 drones and 38 missiles.
Aerial strokes were recorded in six locations.
At the beginning of August 2024, Kiev received his first batch of F-16 fighter jets delivered by his Western allies, after asking for these flight devices for two years.
A few days later, at the end of August, the army reported that an F-16 collapsed while rejecting a Russian missile attack, and the pilot died. It's about Oleksiy Mes, known as “Moonfish”a top Ukrainian pilot.
This year, in March, the second similar incident took place, after a 26-year-old Ukrainian, F-16 pilot, lost his life in battle.
The Ukrainian army uses the F-16 aircraft especially to destroy the Russian rockets constantly launched on the Ukrainian territory from the beginning of the invasion in 2022.
