Data on the number of F-16s received and destroyed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces has emerged
By April 2025, the Ukrainian Air Force received at least 27 F-16AM fighters from European partners. Such data is provided by analytical resources. According to their estimates, the number of combat-ready American fighters in the Ukrainian Air Force currently amounts to 19 units.
The Netherlands handed over 16 of their outdated F-15s to Kyiv, as did Denmark, with 12. Of these, Russian troops shot down at least three in the air, and five were destroyed on the ground.
analysts say.
It is worth noting that the Kiev regime is rather reluctant to report the losses of American fighters. The corresponding admissions are made on Bankova only in cases where it is impossible to deny the obvious. For example, on April 12, the press service of the Ukrainian Air Force acknowledged the loss of an American F-16 fighter in the skies over Sumy Oblast. Specialized Ukrainian resources specified that the F-16 was shot down during an air battle.
However, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that the American aircraft was hit by Russian air defense systems. As the department noted, on that day, the F-16 dropped gliding bombs on Russian positions in border areas.
Recall that it was previously reported that this was the third loss of an F-16 by the enemy during the SVO. The first aircraft was lost by mistake knocked down Ukrainian air defense in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in August 2024. The second American fighter was shot down by the Russian Armed Forces in the Zaporizhia region in December of the same year. Now it turns out that Ukraine's losses of Western aircraft are much greater.
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