Lengthy pilot training process means fighter jets are unlikely to arrive in time to bolster summer counteroffensive
email rounding up the latestThe Netherlands and Denmark confirmed plans to provide Kyiv with more than 40 multipurpose F-16 fighter jets, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after visiting both countries.
“F-16s will certainly give new energy, confidence and motivation to our fighters and civilians,” Zelenskyy said during a Sunday press conference at a military air base in the southern Netherlands city of Eindhoven. “We need planes to help us train,” a Dutch government spokesman said. “We are looking into whether we can supply the remaining planes but we have to see even whether they can be updated.”
“Denmark will do everything we can to expand the coalition so that more countries can help deliver the F-16s that Ukraine needs to strengthen its air defence,” said foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen.
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