Five jets shot down throughout India-Pakistan battle, claims U.S. President Donald Trump

In a contemporary declare, U.S. President Donald Trump stated “five jets were shot down” through the battle between India and Pakistan in May and repeated his assertion that the combating ended following his intervention.

The U.S. President didn’t specify whether or not the jets had been misplaced by both of the 2 nations or whether or not he was referring to mixed losses by either side.

In just about rejecting Mr. Trump’s declare of ending the battle, New Delhi has been sustaining that the 2 sides halted their navy actions following direct talks between their militaries with none mediation by the U.S.

Speaking on the White House throughout a dinner he hosted for Republican senators on Friday (July 18, 2025), Mr.Trump stated: “You had India, Pakistan, that was going… in fact, planes were being shot out of the air…four or five. But I think five jets were shot down actually…that was getting worse and worse, wasn’t it? “That was wanting prefer it was going to go, these are two critical nuclear nations, and so they had been hitting one another,” he stated.

“But India and Pakistan had been going at it, and so they had been backwards and forwards, and it was getting larger and larger. And we obtained it solved by means of commerce. We stated ‘You guys need to make a commerce deal. We’re not making a commerce deal if you are going to be throwing round weapons and possibly nuclear weapons. Both very highly effective nuclear states,” Mr. Trump stated.

He stated his administration achieved extra in six months than nearly some other administration might accomplish in eight years.

“Something I’m very pleased with, we stopped a variety of wars, a variety of wars. And these had been critical wars,” Mr. Trump stated.

Since May 10, Mr. Trump has repeated his declare a number of instances on varied events that he “helped settle” the tensions between India and Pakistan and that he informed the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours that America will do a “lot of commerce” with them in the event that they stopped the battle.

India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, focusing on terrorist infrastructure in territories managed by Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam terror assault.

The Resistance Front (TRF), a entrance for Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), had claimed accountability.

The strikes triggered 4 days of intense clashes that ended with an understanding on stopping the navy actions on May 10.

The U.S. on Thursday (July 17, 2025) designated The Resistance Front as a overseas terrorist organisation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated in a press release that the Department of State is including The Resistance Front (TRF) as a chosen Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).

India welcomed the U.S. resolution to designate TRF as a chosen FTO and SDGT.