Latvian Prime Minister Karins: deliveries of fighter jets to Ukraine are a matter of time

Victor LisitsynDeliveries of Western fighter jets to Ukraine are only a matter of time. Kiev needs fighter jets, so it must get them, Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins has said.If Riga had the opportunity to transfer the weapons it needs to Ukraine, it would not hesitate, he added. We are talking about both tanks and fighters.“The delivery of combat aircraft is only a matter of time. I don’t understand why the West shouldn’t provide fighter jets,” Karins said in an interview with Spiegel magazine.The Prime Minister also added that Ukraine should become a member of the European Union and NATO. According to him, negotiations on the subject concerned should begin before the end of the conflict.