Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, telegraph channel He commented on Europe’s decision to supply Ukraine with F-16 warplanes.
“Oh, don’t play with planes in your sandbox over there, boys. The Vice-President of the Security Council wrote that one of the next “good days” for Europe, no matter how it is its last.
Yuriy Ignat, Spokesperson of the Air Force (AF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU). declarationHe said his country would need about 128 fighters.
According to him, Ukraine needs that many fighter jets to replace the Soviet fleet and gain an advantage over Russia.
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.