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Al Jazeera
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Mansur Mirovalev

Will long-awaited F-16 fighter jets boost Ukraine’s push against Russia?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen sit in a F-16 fighter jet at Skrydstrup airbase in Vojens, Denmark, on August 20, 2023 [Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen via Reuters]

Kyiv, Ukraine – The first US-made F-16 fighter jets have yet to appear in the sky over Ukraine, but there’s already a bounty on them.

Fores, a Russian company that produces equipment for oil drilling, said that it would pay 15 million rubles, or about $170,000, to the first Russian pilot who shoots down an F-16.

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