US reportedly provides stripped F-16 airframes to Ukraine for parts supply US allegedly transferred stripped-down F-16 airframes to Ukraine after photos emerged showing the dismantled jets being loaded onto an Antonov transport aircraft in Arizona. https://
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U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance believes that Russia's war against Ukraine will not end any time soon, he said in an interview with Fox News.
i am actually shocked that it takes forever for foreigners to learn a simple fact: in russia the opposition to putin doesn’t automatically mean opposition to russian imperialism or lack of Ukrainophobia. actually it never means that.
Agreement with the US guarantees new supplies of American weapons, including air defense systems – their cost will be credited to Ukraine.
17/ "For example: in the officers' corridor they couldn't seal the door because it was simply torn off its hinges. Which critically complicated orientation (due to the lack of electric lighting), visibility and the ability to breathe fully."
On 10 April 2022, the Moskva left Sevastopol for its final mission. On 12 April, the ship was ordered to 'guard and defend' the Odessa gas field, located 140 km from the city of Odessa and about 93 km from the nearest coastline in the Odessa region. This was well within the range of Ukrainian missiles.
The ship's logbook records numerous combat alerts triggered by the detection of Ukrainian aircraft and incoming rocket artillery. Black Sea Fleet ships were ordered not to come within 30 km of the coast, but the threat of cruise missile attacks appears to have been ignored.
6/ As well as being inexperienced and new to the ship, the conscripts were not supposed to be sent to a war zone. Despite this, Moskva repeatedly spent extended periods in Ukraine's territorial waters, most famously during the capture of Snake Island on the invasion's first day.
5/ Shkrebets' dossier reports that about 100 experienced contract sailors were removed from the cruiser Moskva just before the war and transferred to other duty stations. Their places were taken by 83 conscripts, like Shkrebets' son Yegor, who were formally regarded as trainees.
2/ On the afternoon of 13 April 2022, Moskva was struck and set on fire by two Ukrainian Neptune missiles. A day later, the ship sank. Russian authorities said that 396 crew members had been evacuated, with one sailor killed and 27 missing.
