General Staff confirms loss of F-16 and pilot’s death

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed the loss of the first F-16 fighter in Ukraine.

The press service of the General Staff has reported this.

It is noted that F-16 fighters were involved in repelling the missile strike. During the aerial battle, four enemy cruise missiles were shot down.

"During the approach to the next target, contact with one of the planes was lost. As it turned out later, the plane crashed, the pilot was killed," the message reads.

To find out the causes of the accident, a special commission of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine was appointed, which works in the area where the plane crashed.

Recall that today the American publication The Wall Street Journal reported the loss of an F-16 fighter. According to the publication, this happened on August 26, when the aggressor country russia launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine.

An unnamed American official said that the crash of the F-16 fighter was most likely due to pilot error.

On August 4, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the arrival of the first F-16s in Ukraine. He also published a video of the flight of two fighter jets with Ukrainian markings.