NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that training Ukrainian pilots to fly US-made F-16 warplanes does not make NATO a party to the conflict in Ukraine. Agency reports Reuters.
“That doesn’t make NATO and its allies parties to the conflict,” he said.
Stoltenberg also stressed that Ukraine has the right to self-defense and NATO is helping Kiev to defend this right.
Jens Stoltenberg previously stated that he gave F-16 pilot training. is is only one of the prerequisites that opens the possibility of supplying these planes to Ukraine. NATO Secretary General described the idea of Western countries to start training pilots as “good”.
Prior to this, Stephane Dujarric, the official representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, commenting on the collective West’s plans to supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, declarationThat the UN wants to end the conflict on the territory of Ukraine in accordance with the charter.