American sources claim: ‘Ukraine destroyed half the few Russian aircraft than they cite!’
Two US officials said the United States estimated that Ukraine hit up to 20 Russian military aircraft last weekend during a drone attack, destroying about ten, which is half less than the figure previously presented by Ukrainian President Volodimir Zeleni.
However, US officials described the attack as extremely significant, one of them warned that Moscow could therefore take a much more hard attitude in negotiations in which the US mediated, which aims to end more than three years a long war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump in a telephone interview Wednesday that Moscow would have to respond to the attack. Ukraine claims that the target of four military air bases across Russia using 117 drones in the operation of the code name « Pauk Network » surgery.
On Wednesday, a recording showed that Ukrainian drones hit Russian strategic bombers and land on domes of two A-50 military spy aircraft, which has only a few. US officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, estimate that Ukrainian attacks destroyed about ten and hit up to 20 Russian military aircraft.
This estimate is significantly lower than the one that Green presented to reporters in Kiev earlier on Wednesday. He said half of the 41 -affected Russian aircraft were too damaged to be repaired. Reuters could not independently confirm the figures from Kiev and Washington.
