Ukraine's defense minister said that the country will soon receive its first F-16 fighter jets, although around half of the needed foreign military aid is arriving late.
Ukraine will receive its first supplies of F-16 fighter jets 'very soon', but around half of its desperately needed foreign military aid is arriving late, Kyiv's defense minister has said. Rustem Umerov, 42, told Reuters in an interview in Kyiv late on Monday that Russia was deploying more manpower and equipment to the front, more than 27 months after its full-scale invasion.
Their objective is to open a new front in the north to start using all their manpower, firing power, against us, they are continuing with their objective to destroy the nation,' he said. 'We are withstanding, but of course we need more weapons, we need more firing power, we need long-range missiles, not to allow them to enter our state.
Even before Russian forces crossed this month into the northern part of the Kharkiv region, capturing border villages and forcing thousands of civilians to flee, it had been slowly advancing for months in the eastern Donetsk region. 'Time is super-crucial and, to repel the attacks, we need to have on time in place,' Umerov said.
But the main military objective for the coming months would be to hold its defensive lines and to suppress the enemy while enhancing Ukrainian military capabilities in the air, at sea and on land. He said he expected the F-16 fighter jets to be delivered 'hopefully very, very soon'. Asked how many Kyiv expected to receive, he said, in English: 'We need as much as we may get.' 'At this stage, we are focused on training our personnel ...
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