7 jets shot down: Trump adjustments declare on planes downed throughout India-Pak battle

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump on Monday once more repeated his declare of brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan again in Might, including that seven jets have been shot down through the army battle.

<source media="(max-width:767px)" srcset="https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2025/08/26/550x309/TRUMP-EO-OVAL-23_1756171151794_1756171163976.jpg" alt="US President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC(Bloomberg)" title="US President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC(Bloomberg)"/> US President Donald Trump throughout an government order signing within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, DC(Bloomberg) Nevertheless, this isn't the variety of jets he mentioned have been shot down earlier. Final month, the Republican mentioned five planes were downed through the battle as "two severe nuclear international locations" hit one another.

Like final time, this time too, Trump didn't specify which nation shot down what number of jets. His contemporary remarks on the topic come weeks after Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh confirmed that India shot down 5 Pakistani fighter jets throughout Operation Sindoor, the army motion focusing on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

The Air Chief Marshal had said that the jets have been shot down by the S-400 air defence methods, and known as it the biggest ever recorded surface-to-air kill.

Other than the 5 jets, one massive Airborne Early Warning and Management (AEW&C) or early warning plane was additionally destroyed, he had mentioned.

'Was going to be a nuclear warfare' Additional, repeating his declare of brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan and "stopping" a nuclear warfare, Donald Trump mentioned on Monday, "The warfare with India and Pakistan was the subsequent stage that was going to be a nuclear warfare... They already shot down 7 jets - that was raging."

He once more linked the truce between the 2 bordering nations to commerce, saying he gave each international locations 24 hours to settle the battle, threatening the US would withhold commerce in the event that they did not cease. "I mentioned, 'You wish to commerce? We aren't doing any commerce or something with you in the event you maintain combating, you have obtained 24 hours to settle it'. They mentioned, 'Nicely, there isn't any extra warfare happening. ' I used that on quite a few events. I used commerce and no matter I had to make use of..." the Republican mentioned.

Trump's remarks on the India-Pak battle are the newest in a sequence of such claims repeated multiple times , ever for the reason that two international locations reached an settlement on cessation of hostilities on Might 10.

The truce was declared days after the launch of Operation Sindoor, launched to avenge the killing of 26 civilians in a terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on April 22.

New Delhi has rejected Trump's mediation declare a number of instances up to now, asserting that ceasefire was reached after a name from Pakistan's Director Basic of Navy Operations (DGMO) to their Indian counterpart. India maintains that the settlement was reached bilaterally, with no third-party intervention.