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Ukraine loses an F-16 pilot and his jet while fighting one of Russia’s biggest ever aerial attacks
Cnn ^ | 30 June25 | Helen Regan

Posted on 06/30/2025 7:08:57 AM PDT by delta7

A Ukrainian pilot was killed and his F-16 fighter jet crashed after Russia launched a huge aerial assault involving hundreds of drones and scores of missiles overnight, the Ukrainian military said on Sunday.…. Russia has ramped up its airborne attacks against Ukraine in recent weeks, launching hundreds of drones and missiles nearly every night….. Also on Sunday, Zelensky announced he signed a decree that would take Ukraine out of the Ottawa Treaty, the international agreement that bans the use of anti-personnel landmine….

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: absurdzeeping; delusionalzeepers; delusionalzeeping; f16; proxywar; ukraine; war; welfarewar; zeepershasthesads; zeepersindespair
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Ukraine has been getting hammered, so much for the Western narratives… ..”Russia running out of missiles “ .
1 posted on 06/30/2025 7:08:57 AM PDT by delta7
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“Zelensky announced he signed a decree that would take Ukraine out of the Ottawa Treaty”

Signed a decree...this sounds like something a king would do.


2 posted on 06/30/2025 7:11:20 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: delta7

IBTG

IBTS


3 posted on 06/30/2025 7:27:19 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: packagingguy

Do remember the depleted uranium tank shells he took delivery from England…..they had no effect on Vlad’s armored forces, but instead polluted the fields with dangerous DU…..and now St Z wants to further pollute their farming land with millions of mines spreading six hundred miles across the country.

There has already been much said by the EU about boycotting the Ukie Ag industry, their farming land has been poisoned by millions of tons of toxic chemicals from artillery, DU, and now minefields that no farmer will dare enter.

Why does the fool keep comitting suicide?


4 posted on 06/30/2025 7:29:34 AM PDT by delta7
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To: kiryandil

IBTG
IBTS
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Texas Gator, the old keyboard warrior has stated he thinks I am Martin Armstrong! What more needs to be said?

“ 6/30/2025, 9:16:36 AM · 85 of 86

Still waiting for you to deny that you are Armstrong”


5 posted on 06/30/2025 7:34:37 AM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

Does Russia still have an armed force?


6 posted on 06/30/2025 7:40:20 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: delta7

“Ukraine loses an F-16 pilot and his jet while fighting one of Russia’s biggest ever aerial attacks”

Any word as to which NATO country this pilot was from?


7 posted on 06/30/2025 7:42:00 AM PDT by BobL
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“Zelensky announced he signed a decree that would take Ukraine out of the Ottawa Treaty”

Might as well be formal about what they’ve been doing.


8 posted on 06/30/2025 7:42:43 AM PDT by BobL
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St Z is destroying the only asset he has left, farmland.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128193822000363

Chapter 36 - Environmental concerns associated with explosives (HMX, TNT, and RDX), heavy metals and metalloids from shooting range soils: Prevailing issues, leading management practices, and future perspectives

“… The copresence of diverse types of organic (TNT, RDX, and HMX) and inorganic pollutants (Pb, Cu, Cd, Ni, Cr, Zn, As, and Sb) can cause endless damage to the environment. …”


9 posted on 06/30/2025 7:42:44 AM PDT by delta7
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“...and now St Z wants to further pollute their farming land with millions of mines spreading six hundred miles across the country.”

Kind of SCORCHED EARTH tactics by the Neocons - if they cannot have Ukraine, then they want NO ONE to have it.


10 posted on 06/30/2025 7:44:19 AM PDT by BobL
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Kind of SCORCHED EARTH tactics by the Neocons - if they cannot have Ukraine, then they want NO ONE to have it.

IBTM

In Before The Mugasms

11 posted on 06/30/2025 7:48:33 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: delta7

Million + dollar aircraft taken out by a drone…maybe a couple thousand dollars?
Oh yeah that was an F16 SLEEPY JOE Biden have the Ukes.


12 posted on 06/30/2025 7:51:00 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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if they cannot have Ukraine, then they want NO ONE to have it.
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Exactly, but the short sighted EU depends on Ukraine for their food security…..Post war analysis will guarantee the establishment of Ukrainian “ no grow Dead Zones”….I am sure Vlad will sell them food when they get hungry enough….fools.


13 posted on 06/30/2025 7:52:34 AM PDT by delta7
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Any word as to which NATO country this pilot was from?

The pilot was Ukrainian, identified as Maksym Ustymenko.

14 posted on 06/30/2025 8:02:55 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: BobL

Most likely the Netherlands.


15 posted on 06/30/2025 8:21:16 AM PDT by montag813
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From the article: ...his F-16 fighter jet...

It was never his jet. It was the U.S. taxpayers' jet. We still haven't been paid back for it.

16 posted on 06/30/2025 8:24:56 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Still waiting for you to deny that you are Armstrong.


17 posted on 06/30/2025 8:45:07 AM PDT by TexasGator (i-D\ logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Wasn’t it an old Netherlands plane?

Did the Dutch not pay?


18 posted on 06/30/2025 8:57:01 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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Wasn’t it an old Netherlands plane? Did the Dutch not pay?

NATO has been in arrears to the United States for decades.

19 posted on 06/30/2025 9:01:29 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Oh, I know. Presumably it was purchased from the manufacturer by the Dutch.

But you could certainly be right that we fronted it and then got stiffed.


20 posted on 06/30/2025 9:05:32 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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