Ukraine Hurls Rare F-16s into Russia’s Northern Offensive as Ground Forces Stretch to Breaking Point
Armed with glide bombs and 'NATO Wi-Fi,' F-16s strike Russians around Sumy while elite brigades abandon the north
Ukraine is running out of choices. Russia has 50,000 troops threatening to besiege Sumy, a city with a pre-war population of 250,000 just 20 miles from the border. Ukraine’s response: gamble its rarest aircraft on missions they might not survive.
The Ukrainian air force is sortieing its small fleet of ex-European F-16s to drop American-made glide bombs on Russian regiments rolling into Sumy Oblast.
Two months after an elite Russian drone group cut the supply lines feeding the Ukrainian force clinging to a 250-square-mile salient around the town of Sudzha in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast—ultimately driving the Ukrainians from Kursk after a bitter, six-month battle—the Russians are pressing their advantage on the northern front of their 39-month wider war on Ukraine.
It’s a risk, but what a way to push Russia back on their heels after yesterday. Keep the pressure on, don’t let up.
Is no surprise Ukraine is kickin butt…’one citizen fighting for his home is worth ten mercenaries’.