General Jan Gravet, deputy head of the press service of the French Ministry of Defense, said that the French army does not train Ukrainian pilots in piloting fighter jets, but in using air defense systems (ADS). This was reported by Agence France-Presse with reference to his statement. DEA News.
Thereupon, he commented on the information of the newspaper Figaro that France trains Ukrainian pilots at air bases.
According to Gravet, in France the Ukrainian crew are trained in managing air defense and surviving if their plane is shot down.
“We do not train Ukrainian pilots to pilot or use weapons systems,” a spokesperson for the French Ministry of Defense said.
He added that in total about 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers were trained in France.
Earlier, the French newspaper Le Figaro reported that 30 Ukrainian soldiers were killed. they are training Aboard the Mirage 2000 warplanes at the Mont-de-Marsan and Nancy airbases in France.