Russia has reportedly downed a US-made F-16 in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia, claiming the jet was targeting the region before being intercepted. This marks one of the first NATO-supplied fighter jet losses in active combat,

As reported by Tass on Friday, Sergei Shmotyev, director of the Russian company Fores, has promised to shell out 15 million rubles, or around $145,000, "for the destruction of the first American F-16 fighter in the zone of a special military operation."

Vladimir Putin says Russia is 'striving' to end the conflict in Ukraine. The Russian President said the Government was prepared to use intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missiles or to use more powerful intermediate-range weapons.