{"id":18263,"date":"2025-04-14T03:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T03:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18263\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T03:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T03:58:08","slug":"ukrainian-piloted-f-16-downed-by-russian-missile-bbc-ukraine-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18263\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian-piloted F-16 downed by Russian missile, BBC Ukraine says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pavlo Ivanov. Photo: Rostyslav Lazarenko on Facebook<\/p>\n<p>BBC sources have reported that the F-16 fighter jet piloted by 26-year-old Ukrainian Pavlo Ivanov was likely shot down by a Russian missile on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/ukrainian\/articles\/cly189xz210o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC Ukraine<\/a>, citing a source in the government<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote from the source:<\/strong> &#8220;In total, the Russians launched three missiles on the aircraft. It was either a guided anti-aircraft missile from an S-400 ground-based system or an air-to-air R-37 missile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> The circumstances are still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>However, the source ruled out friendly fire in this case. According to them, there were no Ukrainian air defence systems operating in the area where Ivanov was carrying out the mission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">On 12 April, Ivanov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/04\/12\/7507285\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was killed in action<\/a> while performing a combat mission in an F-16 fighter jet.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that he had received reports from the military personnel regarding the combat situation, and that all circumstances of the incident were being investigated.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Later that same day, Zelenskyy posthumously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/04\/12\/7507314\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">awarded the title<\/a> of Hero of Ukraine to Ivanov.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pavlo Ivanov. Photo: Rostyslav Lazarenko on Facebook BBC sources have reported that the F-16 fighter jet piloted by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[11501,12165,12166,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-18263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-aircraft","9":"tag-fighter-jets","10":"tag-missile-strike","11":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114334315695838886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}