Russia’s Missile Blitz ‘Confuses’ Ukrainian Pilot; U.S-made F-16 Jet Crashes Due To ‘Error’ | Report

On Monday, a Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet crashed just weeks after its arrival in Ukraine, according to a U.S. official. The crash occurred amid a massive Russian missile barrage but was not caused by enemy fire. Initial reports suggest that pilot error was the likely cause. The U.S. official emphasized that Russian actions did not contribute to the crash. Ukrainian pilot Oleksiy Mes, known as ‘Moonfish,’ died in the incident. Click to know more.

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47 comments
  1. Lying about the whole incident is an insult to the pilot who lost his life as well as his family. Why don't they accept that it was hit by a missile when it's obvious?

  2. Putin is a coward bully. Putin murders anyone brave enough to speak up. No country did anything to Russia. Russia started what may yet become a full on nuclear world war three. Russians are lied to on Putin controlled Russian TV to be obedient nationalists. Or else. Russian rising inflation is eroding Russians savings. Putin is a failure. Over 600,000 Russians already dead or disabled. All for nothing.

  3. It is not Ukrainian but NATO pilots who fly the highly technical, extremely sophisticated F-16s. NATO is active on Ukrainian territory with soldiers, military pilots, advice, training, assignment of enemy targets for medium-range missiles, reconnaissance and strategic concepts on site.

  4. Ahaβ—πŸ€”πŸ€”
    Were it technical failure or human error, the pilot could have bailed out, as is the norm.
    Even the "friendly fire" from a Patriot fails to convince.
    C'mon, silly lil zelly, your chances & days have run out of time.

  5. U.S. needs to get out of its damn foolishness around the world. It's like we've gone totally insane. Socrates said
    ALL wars are about money in some way, and take away all of this free money and it would be like rats leaving a
    sinking ship. Counterproductive to the good of the U.S. As many other Western nations, we have been taken
    over by our servants. The servants now run the house. it's all about a few lords and masters making someone else's money, kids. Nothing else.

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  7. You have no idea what happened so shut your pie hole. I know you will delete this post, cause you only want brain dead pootin sycophants here, but screw you zippy. We have seen what absolute crap ruzzian weapons are, what happened to their 4 day war? I guess the russkies didn't get to wear their parade uniforms as they marched victoriously through Kiev.
    Go weep suckers, ruzzia is finished , next stop third world country begging for scraps, and the West pissing on them!

  8. The long-obsolete, modified F-16 that flies high and falls low! Who flies hight, lands low! (Одавно застарСли, ΠΌΠΎΠ΄ΠΈΡ„ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ²Π°Π½ΠΈ Π»ΠΎΠ²Π°Ρ† Π€-16 који високо Π»Π΅Ρ‚ΠΈ, ниско ΠΏΠ°Π΄Π°! Ко високо Π»Π΅Ρ‚ΠΈ, ниско ΡΠΏΡƒΡˆΡ‚Π°!)

  9. Running out of fuel

    Runing out of good weather

    Running out of equipment

    Running out of men

    Running out of support

    In a word Popkin and Russia are FUCKED !! just don`t know it yet!

  10. victoria neuland Clintons Obama jake sillivan blinken pet project to destroy Russia via UKRAINE totally failed ukrain crisis started on day Russia invasion of UKRAINE ON 24 FEBRUARY 2022 but 8 years ago February 22 2014 CIA M16 VICTORIA NEWLAND engineered Maidan coup toppling democraticaly elected government of VIKTOR YANUKOVICH street protests hijacked by CIA paid mobsters from Georgia who shot ukranian and armed forcee police and genuine protestors evil evil evil despicable act precipitated UKRAINE CRISIS IN FEBRUARY 2014

  11. UKRAINIANS ARE NOT DYING FOR THEIR NATION BUT FOR WESTERN POLITICAL ELITES

    How unfeeling & deeply cynical do you have to be to preserve yourself from a deserved humiliation at the cost of thousands of Ukrainian lives?

    There is no silver bullet that the Ukrainian regime can use to drive the Russian military back, there is no game-changing weapon that will achieve this for it. When the F16s fail to make any perceptible differences this must surely be finally a settled matter. The progress of the Russian army will continue as it has done for the past two years and more, grinding down Ukrainian resistance, taking hamlets, villages, towns and cities, demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine as it moves inexorably forward ensuring the safety of the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine and ensuring that Ukraine never joins NATO.

    What possible outcome other than the above is conceivable? Only if one thinks in apocalyptic terms of all out war between Russia and NATO or Russia and the USA, for that is what would be the expected outcome if the war was to be expanded out of Ukraine. The almost inevitable nuclear conflagration at that point does not bear thinking about. So, what chance is there for the victory that Zelensky holds out for along with his western sponsors? Precisely no hope whatsoever. As soon as the western plan to cripple Russia with sanctions while supplying Ukraine with near unlimited money and weapons failed to do anything but strengthen both Russia’s economy and resolve a decision should have been made then and there to settle.

    A peace settlement was just about there in Istanbul in March-April 2022. Unless it was simply a ruse to blindside Russia as the Minsk Accord process was, peace was there for the making. The western powers, mainly its two most aggressive members, the USA and UK, pushed for war instead, and got it. Ever since that deeply cynical decision they have doubled down instead of settling every step of the way. Even knowing it was impossible for Russia to let NATO be on its doorstep and modern day Ukrainian Nazis torture their Russian-speaking family in the Donbass, the western powers set their face against compromise. They would fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.

    With China, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and many otters happy to continue trading with Russia and maintaining friendly relations the western powers should have recognised their plans for Russia would come to nothing. This was confirmed also when due to expert handling of the situation Russia actually profited from the sanctions regime that the US, UK and EU attempted to impose upon it. This was a double whammy for those powers. Yet would they recognise they were onto a losing bet? They would not. Like a desperate gambler who has lost big in the casino they simply kept on doubling down.

    Now, with the last few throws of the dice, the F16s and a pointless and ultimately counter-productive incursion by the Ukrainian army into Russia’s Kursk region, the metaphorical casino’s management are about to give the western powers the bum’s rush. Yet the well-heeled and cosseted politicians of the West have many ways to escape the humiliation they richly deserve. Like Blair and bush after the Iraq debacle they will manage to voice some weasel words, write their memoirs and more or less retire into semi-obscurity. The blood on their hands will be antiseptically removed, no one in tier circles will mention Ukraine again, they will practice their smiles, crack a few jokes and pretend the whole thing never happened.

    Over in what’s left of Ukraine with a decimated population, a destroyed economy and a traumatized majority vainly trying to earn a crust or else seeking to escape its borders, there will be few smiles and certainly no back-slapping to match that which the guilty in the West continue to receive. With tens of thousands comprised of walking wounded, with one in five families having experienced a bereavement and a whole generation of young men lost, what kind of an existence will people have there? Will there be champagne parties as the elites of Washington will continue to enjoy? Hardly. The people will be unable to forget unlike the designer-suited mass murderers of Washington, Whitehall and Brussels. The vast flag-strewn graveyards the western elites bequeathed them won’t let them.

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