Sufficient air defense means will allow Ukraine to open an airfield in Lviv. This was expressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmitry Kuleba, on the broadcast of the 1+1 TV channel. According to him, Kiev needs F-16 warplanes to open the airport.
“If we had F-16s and they were patrolling the Ukrainian skies, then at least Lviv airport would open safely and we wouldn’t have to worry about anything,” said the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
According to him, Western countries are delaying the delivery of warplanes, but they will still do it. “Of course I want to come and say: “Well, what are you shooting, how will you do it.” And in principle, to be honest, I say so. But they have their own ideas, their own logic and their own analysis,” he said.
He described Eurocontrol’s forecast of a possible flight restriction through Ukraine until 2029 as too conservative. According to him, everyone in Ukraine wants at least one airport to work.
Former experts of the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) gave a guessHe said that the current flight ban from Russia to European countries will most likely come into effect in the coming years. The forecast of Eurocontrol analysts implies that the airspace of a number of CIS countries, including Russia and Ukraine, will remain closed to aircraft over the next seven years.
Dmitry Kuleba, sooner or later the Western states to make a decision About sending American F-16 warplanes to Ukraine. According to him, the story of warplanes will be the same as the supply of other weapons.