Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) Air Force (AF) Spokesperson Yuriy Ignat said his country will need about 128 fighters. This was reported by the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian edition “Strana.ua”.
According to Ignat, Ukraine needs that many fighter jets to replace the Soviet fleet and gain an advantage over Russia.
“It is clear that warfare can make its own adjustments, but it really takes more than 100 aircraft to disperse them across different airfields so that they can respond to different challenges and hit different targets. And on the plane, and on the ground, and especially in the rear of the enemy, ”he said.
As pointed out by the spokesperson of the Armed Forces, if 42 fighters are delivered to Kiev, it will be able to form about four aviation brigades.
On the eve of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visit He visited the Netherlands and Denmark. According to him, the negotiations in Amsterdam were a “breakthrough”, and he agreed to transfer 42 F-16 fighter jets to Kiev. At the same time, Dutch Prime Minister Rutte noted that there are only 42 such aircraft in the country and it is not yet possible to say exactly how many of them will be supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In Denmark, Zelensky sat in the cockpit of an F-16 with the country’s prime minister, announcing that Copenhagen would supply 19 fighter jets to Kiev.
Previously in Ukraine in your name Zelensky’s joy over the supply of the F-16 was staged.