this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2024
32 points (92.1% liked)

Ukraine

10503 readers
465 users here now

News and discussion related to Ukraine

Matrix Space

Community Rules

🇺🇦 Sympathy for enemy combatants is prohibited.

🌻🤢No content depicting extreme violence or gore.

💥Posts containing combat footage should include [Combat] in title

🚷Combat videos containing any footage of a visible human involved must be flagged NSFW

❗ Server Rules

  1. Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.)
  2. No racism or other discrimination
  3. No Nazis, QAnon or similar
  4. No porn
  5. No ads or spam (includes charities)
  6. No content against Finnish law

💳 Defense Aid 💥

💳 Humanitarian Aid ⚕️⛑️

🪖 Volunteer with the International Legionnaires

See also:

!nafo@lemm.ee

!combatvideos@SJW

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
lisko@sopuli.xyz
doo@sh.itjust.works
Burstar@sopuli.xyz
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz
32
Ukraine’s new fighters: ‘They say F-16s are manna from heaven. Far from it’ (www.aljazeera.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Weirdmusic@lemmy.world to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Kyiv’s forces are due to receive the aircraft within weeks, but analysts say they are unlikely to be a game-changer.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The Ukrainians have been pretty busy with shaping operations in Crimea, i.e. blowing up as much air defence as they can. The F-16s could have a real impact on making Russia's position there untenable.