{"id":116173,"date":"2024-08-28T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T06:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/zelensky-ukraine-f-16-shoot-down-russian-missiles\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T06:40:27","slug":"zelensky-says-ukraine-used-its-f-16s-to-shoot-down-russian-missiles-during-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=116173","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Says Ukraine Used Its F-16s To Shoot Down Russian Missiles During Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that Ukraine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-16\/\">F-16s<\/a> were used to defend the skies from the latest massive Russian missile barrage. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-16-fighter-jets-arrive-ukraine\/\">Ukraine recently received the first ten or so of its much anticipated F-16 fighter jets<\/a> from the Netherlands and Denmark. As expected, these jets have kept a low profile as Ukraine incorporates them into its armed forces and works them up. This comes as little surprise as the delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ukraine-f-16-advanced-counter-measures-pods-enhanced-defense\/\">F-16s were seen fitted with air defense missiles and systems<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has used its F-16s in combat, defending Ukrainian skies and shooting down Russian missiles and\/or drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,120,625,309,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-f-16","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116175,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116173\/revisions\/116175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}