India shot down five Pakistani fighter jets and one other military aircraft during fighting in May, India’s air force chief says, the first such statement from the country since the deadly conflict with its neighbour.

Air force chief Amar Preet Singh made the announcement on Saturday, weeks after India’s military acknowledged that an unspecified number of its own jets were also shot down by Pakistan during their heaviest fighting in decades. It involved fighter planes and cruise missiles and killed dozens of people.

The conflict was triggered after armed men killed 26 tourists in India-administered Kashmir’s Pahalgam town on April 22.

Speaking at a military lecture in the southern city of Bengaluru on Saturday, Singh said India’s S-400 air defence systems took down most of the Pakista

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