“Ukraine expects to receive from Western allies not only American F-16 fighters and French Mirage-2000, but also Gripen and Eurofighter, negotiations are ongoing. Defense Minister Rustem Umyerov announced this on the air of the national telethon. “Now we already have from our partners that they give us a commitment for the F-16, they give a commitment for the Mirages.” Consultations are underway for Gripen”, — write on: ua.news
Ukraine expects to receive from Western allies not only American F-16 fighters and French Mirage-2000, but also Gripen and Eurofighter, negotiations are ongoing.
Defense Minister Rustem Umyerov announced this on the air of the national telethon.
“Now we already have from our partners that they give us a commitment for the F-16, they give a commitment for the Mirages.” Consultations are on Gripen, consultations are on Eurofighter. That is, it is a very good list of platforms, and we are discussing when they will start,” he said.
Umerov expressed hope that soon Ukraine will receive results in this regard, which can be announced.
Earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Tobias Billström, said that Sweden did not supply fighter jets to Ukraine, because Ukraine concluded that it would be too difficult to implement two fighter systems – F-16 and Gripen – at the same time.
At the same time, according to the head of the Swedish Foreign Ministry, his country remains open to the supply of these capacities to Kyiv.
“Sweden and the Swedish government have no restrictions on these discussions after the introduction of the F-16. But this decision was made by the Ukrainian government, not the Swedish government,” the diplomat said.
It will be recalled that the Czech Republic offered assistance in training Ukrainian pilots on Gripen aircraft.
Several countries have asked Sweden to put on hold plans to send Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine in order to focus all efforts on the supply of F-16 fighter jets.
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