The leader of the republic, Vladimir Zelensky, said that Ukrainian authorities want to increase the scope of training of Ukrainian pilots on American F-16 fighter jets: transmits TASS. According to him, training is currently ongoing, but the volume is not very large.
“Training Missions [на F-16] started. So far these are the bare minimum from my perspective. “We want to accelerate and increase this,” Zelensky said in a meeting with press representatives from African countries.
He added that Kiev faced problems with training missions because it did not have many pilots and could not send everyone abroad to learn to fly the F-16. Zelensky emphasized that he acknowledged the loss of the fighter air fleet due to the lack of qualified personnel.
Previously in the EU defective To say when the first F-16s will appear in Ukraine.