• President Zelenskiy announces use of U.S.-made fighter planes
    • Ukraine has long waited for the higher-capability jets
    • Kyiv hopes they will change war, Russia vows to shoot them down

Aug 4 (Reuters) - Ukrainian pilots have started flying F-16s for operations within the nation, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, confirming the long-awaited arrival of the U.S.-made fighter jets more than 29 months since Russia’s invasion.

  • Flying Squid
    4•1 month ago

    But who could they invade it with? The betting, as I see it, is that they are essentially sacrificing Ukraine to save their own asses. Russia is just running out of people to put on the lines.

    • dactylothecaEnglish
      3•1 month ago

      Russian population growth isn’t 0, though. Yes, the war’s going to make a demographic dent, but they’ve turned their schools into military indoctrination machines

      • Flying Squid
        3•1 month ago

        It isn’t zero but it takes a long time to replace a decimated military. Even if you take conscription down to 16, you can only lose so many people per year before you can’t replace them before they age up quickly enough.