In order to follow developments in the Ukraine war (seemingly yesterday's news already), I track Intel_Slava on Telegram. Within a day after the assassination attempt on Trump, the Russians are now dropping bombs marked as "For Trump." (Za Trampa.) It makes me wonder what their SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service) knows about all this.
The Russian news reports on this channel are disdainful of Biden and respectful and even concerned about Trump.
The scene in Ukraine seems to be that Russia is conducting a vigorous but measured and thorough mopping up, clearing Ukrainian forces from novoRussian territory. Immense bounties are being offered for any Russian pilot who downs an American F-15 or F-16 in theater.
From Lockheed: "F-16 jets that Ukraine will receive are around 40-years-old." So these airframes were built around 1983/84. They are WAY past their freshness date to be frontline combat airframes. A fighter even with modernization can go maybe 25 years before being retired from frontline service (fighters not refuelers, bombers, or specialized aircraft) and put in cold storage or transferred to Air National Guard units. I would guess these still have their original engined from when they were delivered. These fighters are not junk, but S3,4 and 5 SAMS will obliterate these just from the total lack of pilot training.
The rewards are offered to pilots, meaning air-to-air or ground attack, not air defense.