Ukraine has apparently come to terms with there being no donations of fighter jets during the counter offensive, or even this year at all.
Nevertheless, Ukrainian pilots areon “NATO standard” aircraft now per an agreement reached at the NATO summit earlier this year. At the time of that agreement being reached, Denmark’s defence minister said there would be “hopefully… results in the beginning of next year”.
The United States produces the F-16 and consequently has the power to permit or deny any export of the jet to Ukraine. In May, a Pentagon spokesmanthere was no hope of F-16s going to Ukraine any time soon, and that training Ukrainian pilots was more about long-term defence, rather than contributing to what was then known as the Spring counteroffensive. Training a fast jet pilot to a decent NATO standard from scratch can take years.
Ukraine is not without hope, however, with the nation’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba saying he hoped for “good news soon” on the F-16 question, even suggesting as Ukrainian pilots complete their F-16 training in Romania, they could simply bring their jets home with them. He said, per Ukrainform: “Once the training is over. I think that Ukrainian pilots will return from training and the jets will return with them too.
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