Russia Claims It Downed F-16 Jet in Ukraine

Saturday, September 28, 2024

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, the Russian Embassy in South Africa posted a photo of a destroyed F-16 fighter jet, which appeared to have the Ukrainian coat of arms on its tail. "When you ask Ukrainian pilots where their F-16s are," the caption on the photo read, indicating that the Russians were taking credit for shooting down the jet. The claim was swiftly discredited ...

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... X added a community note stating: "The photo shows a USAF F-16 that crashed in 2019." The note also contained links to articles about the incident, which contained the same picture of the fighter jet that the Russian Embassy had used in its post.

Newsweek has contacted Russia's and Ukraine's defense ministries for comment by email.

The photo showed an F-16 that crashed in May 2019 in California due to a failure in the aircraft's hydraulics system, with 13 people left injured in the incident. In the original image, there was no Ukrainian coat of arms on the tail of the aircraft, suggesting the photo had been edited by the Russian Embassy. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-28 04:08 PM | Reply

Yeah, no.

Russians are notorious liars.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-28 05:27 PM | Reply

@#2 ... Russians are notorious liars. ....

Well, yeah. I've known that ever since I built a shortwave radio back in the 1960's and started listening to, among others, Radio Moscow.

But the current concerning aspect is that the GOP seems to have been sucked into the Russian lies, and now seem to be more of a hand puppet for Moscow.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-28 07:08 PM | Reply