Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he will meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday after a Russia-U.S. summit concluded without an agreement to stop the fighting in Ukraine after 3 1/2 years.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Lieutenant General Anatolii Kryvonozhko as commander of the Ukrainian Air Force on 3 August. Source: Zelenskyy on X (Twitter) Quote from Zelenskyy: "Today, I appointed Lieutenant General Anatolii Kryvonozhko as Commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The air force did not directly deny that the F-16 was hit by a Patriot missile. U.S. experts have joined the Ukrainian investigation into the crash, the air force said.

Ukraine's domestic security agency has detained an air force officer on charges of having spied for Russia by leaking the location of prized F-16 and Mirage 2000 fighter jets, officials said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine aims for the complete and effective integration of its Air Force with NATO forces. Source: Zelenskyy in his address; official presidential website Details: In his address on Ukraine's Air Force Day,

Ukraine has devised a 20-year development strategy for the Air Force centred around its de facto inclusion in Nato forces.

Ukraine has mostly been able to counter Russia's air force, blunting its ability to affect the war. But Russia may now have a plan to lure away Ukrain's air defense to make an opening, experts said.

Jet-propelled drones like the Geran-3 are said to fly nearly thrice as fast as today's Shaheds, a key problem for Ukraine's new interceptor drones.

Pre-war, the Ukrainian air force had around 125 fast jets. Combat losses through mid-April, including at least six MiG-29s, probably shrank the fighter inventory to around 90.

Convinced there were relatively few matters left to resolve, and believing a truce would only prolong the war, Trump set aside his publicly stated goal of a temporary halt in fighting.

Speaking aboard Air Force One on his way to meeting with Putin in Alaska, Trump told reporters he wants “to see a ceasefire rapidly.”

The Ukrainian air force hasn’t acquired a new manned warplane since 1991. That was the year the Soviet Union dissolved, leaving on Ukrainian soil hundreds of relatively modern fighters, bombers ...