Danish PM says country will provide 19 in stages when pilot training is completed as Dutch counterpart pledges up to 42 planes
and Denmark have announced they will donate up to 61 F-16 fighter jets between them to Ukraine once pilot training has been satisfactorily completed, as Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited both countries after months of entreaties to bolster the Ukrainian air force.
and the Ukrainian air force,” Rutte said at a joint press conference with the Ukrainian president at an airbase at Eindhoven. The jets would be handed over from existing stockpiles once “the conditions for such a transfer have been met”, he added. F-16s will not be transferred until pilots and ground crews are properly trained. The process will take six months for learning the pilot skills, plus about another four months for the pilot crews to learn technical English to the required standard.
Zelenskiy said the planes, which Ukraine has been seeking since the early stages of the war, would help strengthen Ukraine’s air defences and help its slow-moving counteroffensive. “Aircraft can speed up this process,” he said.
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