{"id":225625,"date":"2025-06-30T03:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225625\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T03:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:36:14","slug":"ukraine-russia-war-latest-ukraine-loses-f-16-pilot-in-putins-largest-aerial-attack-since-start-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225625\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine-Russia war latest: Ukraine loses F-16 pilot in Putin\u2019s largest aerial attack since start of war"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Ranked: Russia’s top five heaviest airstrikes on Ukraine<\/p>\n

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  1. 29 June 2025 – 537 drones and missiles <\/li>\n
  2. 9 June 2025 – 499 drones and missiles <\/li>\n
  3. 1 June 2025 – 479 drones and missiles <\/li>\n
  4. 17 June 2025 – 472 drones and missiles <\/li>\n
  5. 6 June 2025 – 452 drones and missiles <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"AA view of the Ukrainian capital during an air raid alert in Kyiv (Reuters)<\/p>\n

    Arpan Rai30 June 2025 04:03<\/p>\n

    <\/a>Ukraine F-16 pilot killed in large-scale Russian attack<\/p>\n

    A Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilot died in a crash while repelling a Russian air attack that involved hundreds of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles, authorities said yesterday, as Moscow intensifies night-time air barrages in the fourth year of war.<\/p>\n

    \u201cTragically, while repelling the attack, our F-16 pilot, Maksym Ustymenko died,\u201d said president Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n

    \u201cToday, he destroyed 7 aerial targets.<\/p>\n

    \u201cMy condolences to his family and brothers-in-arms. I have instructed that all the circumstances of his death be investigated. Ukrainian aviation is heroically protecting our skies. I am grateful to everyone who is defending Ukraine.”<\/p>\n

    Mr Zelensky called for more support from Washington and Western allies to bolster Ukraine’s air defences after the attack, which damaged homes and infrastructure across the country and injured at least 12 people, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n

    \"UkrainianUkrainian F-16 fighter pilot Maksym Ustymenko (Mariana Betsa\/x)<\/p>\n

    Arpan Rai30 June 2025 03:57<\/p>\n

    <\/a>Russia launches largest airstrike on Ukraine since start of the war<\/p>\n

    Russia launched its \u201cmost massive airstrike\u201d on Ukraine<\/a> since the start of the war <\/a>as part of an escalating bombing campaign, dashing hopes of a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

    Air raid alerts sounded \u201calmost all night long\u201d on Saturday as Russia fired a total of 537 aerial weapons at Ukraine, including 477 drones \u2013 mostly Russian-Iranian Shaheds, plus a number of decoys \u2013 and 60 missiles.<\/p>\n

    The attack targeted several regions, including west Ukraine, far from the front line.<\/p>\n

    Ukraine\u2019s air force<\/a> said it had managed to shoot down 249 and a further 226 were lost, likely having been electronically jammed.<\/p>\n

    Arpan Rai30 June 2025 03:47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ranked: Russia’s top five heaviest airstrikes on Ukraine 29 June 2025 – 537 drones and missiles 9 June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-225625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114770227106054003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225625","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=225625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}