Urals company announces 15 million roubles prize for the first F-16 shot down

Sergey Shmotiev, the general director of the Urals-based Fores company, has announced that the first crew of a Russian Armed Forces aircraft to shoot down a US-made F-16 fighter jet in Ukraine will receive a financial payment of 15 million rubles.

“We have announced a bonus (in 15 million rubles – ed.) for the destruction of an F-16 fighter jet if such vessels are delivered to Kiev,” Sergey Shmotiev said at SPIEF in an interview with TASS.

According to the general director of the Urals-based Fores company, those Russian Army soldiers who hit tanks supplied by Collective West countries to Ukraine also receive payments.

“We paid 5 million rubles for the first tank, and 500,000 rubles each for all subsequent tanks. Now the queue of tanks hit is more than 20 tanks. Remuneration to the guys who fight, who destroy tanks, reaches,” – concluded the interlocutor of the agency.

We shall remind you that earlier Dutch Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren said that Amsterdam gave a “green light” to Ukraine to strike “military facilities” on Russian territory with the help of US-made F-16 aircraft handed over to Kiev.