The Kremlin has said on Thursday that any F-16s delivered to Ukraine “will be shot down” and they will have very little impact and will prolong the war.
The Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the multi-role fighter jets will not have much of an impact on the battlefield.
Peskov said in a statement, “Their number will gradually decrease, they will be shot down… But of course, these deliveries will not have any significant impact on the development of events on the front,” the Kyiv Post reported.
The fighter jets are equipped with the deadly Storm Shadow cruise missiles which are also equipped to carry bombs, rockets and they are fitted with a 20mm cannon.
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Last month Newsweek reported that there is a bounty for each F-16 of 15 million rubles which is roughly £135,000.
Newsweek cited Ilya Potanin, a director of Russian oil company FORES, who said, “There will be rewards for the destruction of F-15 and F-16 combat aircraft. The reward for the first will be 15 million rubles.”
Alexander Kots, a Russian journalist and correspondent for Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda said, “A serviceman of the Russian Aerospace Forces must receive at least some benefit from the fabulous generosity of the Western curators of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“F-16 fighters should be looked at as fat, tasty prey, and not as an unknown spaceship that will fly in and kill everyone.”
🚨 First sighting of F-16 in Ukraine. Likely Odessa region. pic.twitter.com/5yj29SIyLR
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) July 31, 2024
F-16 fighter jets have been seen over the skies of Ukraine in Lviv on Wednesday following reports the warplanes are operational.
Media channels showed footage of what appears to be an F-16 flying above Lviv’s Rynok Square and another sighting was seen over Odesa, the Kyiv Post reports.
Bloomberg reported Ukraine has finally received their first batch of the US fourth generation F-16s and Lithuania’s Foreign Minister and a US official informed Reuters the multi-role jets are operational.
Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of the Office of the President said, “Ukraine will not officially confirm the arrival of F-16. In this matter, ‘the fog of war is very useful’.”
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