According to the secretary general of NATO, Ukraine is training fighter pilots to fly F-16 aircraft. Kyiv announced this as it claimed fresh small victories in its counteroffensive against Russian forces in the country’s east and south.
The pilots will be prepared to fly the planes once training has begun, so we have the option of also choosing to deliver them, the former Norwegian prime minister said as he arrived at a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels.
The change comes after months of internal discussion in Washington about the dangers of Ukraine using F-16s to attack targets on Russian soil and perhaps intensifying the conflict. The re-export of the planes from any nation that has them in its arsenal is under US control. #The guardians reports.
The so-called fourth-generation US fighters have yet to be agreed upon by partners, but Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukrainian personnel training was already underway.
The Ukraine’s pilots, who had previously mostly flown Soviet-style aircraft, will still need to undergo months of training. Even without NATO partners agreeing to supply the equipment, Ukraine does not yet have runways adequate for F-16s.
“The Ukrainian army has significantly improved its experience and expertise on the battlefield this year, and we are prepared and will continue to fight until the full liberation of our own territories, even with our bare hands,” stated Hromov. This will occur more quickly with heavy weaponry from our friends.
In the vicinity of the village of Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhzhia region, as well as up to 4 kilometers away from a settlement south of Velyka Novosilka in Donetsk, the Ukrainian army is believed to have made gains.
There is a slow but steady progress of the armed forces, according to Hanna Maliar, deputy minister of defense for Ukraine. The enemy is also putting up strong resistance [on the southern front]. The enemy is gathering more reserves, to prevent any further advancement of Ukrainian forces.
Ukrainian forces still had enough armament, according to Lloyd Austin, the US defense secretary, for the upcoming conflict. He claimed, “I believe the Russians have shown us the same five cars roughly 1,000 times from 10 different viewpoints. However, the Ukrainians still possess a great deal of fighting strength and capabilities.
In addition to providing training for fighter jets, it was stated in Brussels that the US, UK, the Netherlands, and Denmark were sending “high priority” air defence weaponry, including hundreds of missiles to Ukraine, and that the delivery would be finished in a matter of weeks.
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.