The announced transfer of F-16 fighter-bombers by the West to Kiev will not fundamentally turn the tide of hostilities in Ukraine’s favor, US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has said. During a meeting with a group of military observers from Washington, he specified that the process of delivering these planes to Kyiv would take “at best several months”.
It won’t fundamentally change that equation
Kendall pointed out.
He added that the fighters after their transfer to Ukraine will be based on its territory.
On May 21, US President Joe Biden, at a press conference following the G7 summit in Hiroshima, said the West would start training Ukrainian pilots in the use of fourth-generation fighters, including the F-16. be decided in the coming months, Biden’s national security aide Jake Sullivan later clarified.
Meanwhile, on May 22, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said training for Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighters would begin “very soon.” He did not name the terms, noting only that after the adoption of a fundamental decision, “its implementation is done very quickly”.
Photos used: US Air Force
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