Denmark and the Netherlands have begun sending the jets, but Ukraine’s president says he needs more.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday during a side event that his country needed at least 128 F-16s, and that the ones on the way were too few and are coming too late in the battle. | Andre Medina/U.S. Air ForceNATO countries have begun transferring American-made F-16s to Ukraine, with hopes that the fighter jets will quickly be in the skies to help Kyiv defend itself against Russian air onslaughts.
“Those jets will be flying in the skies of Ukraine this summer to make sure that Ukraine can continue to effectively defend itself against the Russian aggression,” Blinken said to applause. Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium had earlier committed to shipping more than 60 U.S.-manufactured F-16 jets to Ukraine this summer.
“Even if we will have 50, it’s nothing,” Zelenskyy said. “We need — they have 300. We need … because we are defending, we need 128.”, but Washington has countered that it has limited school seats and can’t train as many pilots as are available.
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