Trump Estimates Five Jets Were Downed in India-Pakistan Conflict

US President Donald Trump said five jets may have been shot down during the recent India-Pakistan conflict, and reiterated that his administration used trade pressure to broker a ceasefire between the two sides, a claim New Delhi had repeatedly rejected.

“These are two serious nuclear countries and they were hitting each other,” Trump said in a dinner speech to US lawmakers on Friday. “I think five jets were shot down, actually,” he said, without elaborating.