An F-16 fighter jet given to Ukraine reportedly shot down an advanced Russian plane thanks to the assistance of a Swedish reconnaissance aircraft. German newspaper Bild said the Russian Sukhoi Su-35 jet had been downed in the northeast of the country in an operation it described as a "historic first.

A Ukrainian F-16 reportedly shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet over Russia’s Kursk Oblast on June 9th in what is described as an ingenious aerial ambush. -According to German newspaper Bild, the key to the engagement was a Swedish-supplied Saab 340 AEW&C “spy plane” that detected the Su-35 from over 200