The Ukrainian authorities have admitted that they do not expect to receive the long-awaited F16 fighters of American manufacture that they expected and remember that their pilots are “prepared” to receive the necessary instruction in European territory.
“It is clear that Ukraine It will not receive the F16s necessary for our defense in the autumn or in winter,” said the spokesman for the air forces, Yuriy Ignataccording to the agency ukrinformto add that he was not going to “hide from the nation” that reality.
“We need these fighters either late this year or early next year or later. We have no choice,” the spokesperson added.
ignat He also pointed out that Ukrainian pilots are prepared to receive precise instruction in their handling and expressed his hopes that there will be no “delays” in this process.
The spokesman for the air forces reported at the end of July that a first group of pilots had already left to receive this instruction, although without specifying where they would do so or the number of troops.
A month earlier, the governments of Poland and of Netherlands They had expressed their willingness for the training to take place in their territory, although it was also not specified when these operations would start.
