Verkhovna Rada deputy Maryana Bezuglaya said that in Ukraine the first US-Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet was shot down by ‘friendly fire’ of the Patriot system of the AFU.
‘According to my information, the F-16 of Ukrainian pilot Oleksiy ‘Moonfish’ Mes was shot down by the Patriot surface-to-air missile system due to discoordination between units,’ the politician wrote in her Telegram channel.
At the same time, the MP emphasised that in the reports of the Ukrainian command ‘crash’ was documented: the pilot ‘failed to cope with the control’.
‘The culture of lies in the Air Force Command of the AFU, as well as in other higher military headquarters, leads to the fact that the system of management of military decisions does not improve on the basis of truthful, consistently collected analytics, but deteriorates and even collapses, as is happening in the Pokrovsk direction,’ – summarised Maryana Bezuglaya.
We shall remind you that earlier The Wall Street Journal said that the first US-Ukrainian F-16 aircraft ‘crashed’ in Ukraine on 26 August.