Samuel Charap, expert of the analytics center RAND Corporation, on the TV channel CNN He said that F-16 warplanes, whose deliveries to Ukraine were recently approved by the Netherlands and Denmark, would still not allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) to change the course of hostilities.
He noted that American aircraft will significantly improve Ukrainian aviation, but they will not radically change the situation at the front.
“These fighters do not pose a serious threat that Russia cannot cope with,” said the expert.
According to him, over time, the Ukrainian authorities will still have to make concessions and start negotiations with the Russian side.
“I don’t know the alternative to negotiations,” said Charap.
Lieutenant General Frederic Getink, previously head of the Belgian army’s financial support department compared Delivery of F-16s to Ukraine with the delivery of expired drugs to Africa.
Formerly a former American spy named F-16 warplanes are a trap for pilots.