european countries operate and manufacture some of the world's top fighter jets including the euro
fighter typhoon rafale and saab gripen burrell did not specify what type of plane would be heading to
ukraine he said however that they would be the ones already used by the ukrainian air force
an expert who did not wish to be named clarified that the eu will not equip ukraine with western
fighter jets because the country does not have time to train its pilots for the new jets
giving them the fighter planes they had flown was the fastest method to get them going
in a significant step european union eu member states will send fighter
jets to ukraine which is being attacked by russian forces a top eu official said
we will provide evenly distributed fighter jets we're not just talking about ammunition
we provide more important weapons for war virel told a news conference
ukraine has no knowledge of flying european or american warplanes such as the rafale typhoon
or f-16 and the time is too short to train them if the ukrainians cannot fly them they
will need western pilots to operate and combat the russian jets this literally
means declaring war on russia which would obviously have devastating repercussions
so the only option was to give them a plane that they could operate fly
and on which they could use their own pilot since negotiations are ongoing
and russia hasn't actually launched a full-blown war against ukraine
the overall goal is to build pressure on moscow and not actually engage in aerial combat
similarly a european diplomat told michael birnbaum of the washington post that ukraine
is ready to procure russian-made jets from bulgaria slovakia and poland
this suggests that the mig-29 as well as possibly the su-25 will be delivered soon
in addition as the war with russia continues the ukrainian military stated on sunday that it had
received a large number of air-to-air missiles from its western partners
the general staff of the ukrainian armed forces announced on facebook
that the newly delivered missile was already under the wing of the country's fighter jets
the expert further told the eurasian times many people ask me why the us and
eu cannot help ukraine with the latest fighter jets because they are helping
them with advanced military hardware including powerful anti-tank missiles