“I made it clear very early on that we are not talking about combat aircraft, and I am doing the same here,” he said in the Bundestag. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said there was no chance of fighter jets being sent to Ukraine. Apart from nuclear weapons, there is nothing left that we will not get,” Sak said. They didn’t want to give us tanks, now they’re giving us tanks. They didn’t want to give us HIMARS systems, then they did. “They didn’t want to give us heavy artillery, then they did.
Before the Russian invasion, even the idea of supplying lethal aid to Ukraine was highly controversial, but Western supplies have since shattered taboo after taboo. Western military support has been vital for Kyiv and has rapidly evolved during the war. The warplanes are used for intercept missions and to attack Russian positions. Ukraine’s air force has a fleet of ageing Soviet-era fighter jets that came off the assembly line before Kyiv even declared independence more than 31 years ago. “If we get them the advantages on the battlefield will be just immense … It’s not just F-16s, fourth-generation aircraft, this is what we want.” “The next big hurdle will now be the fighter jets,” said Yuriy Sak, who advises defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov. Ukraine won a huge boost for its troops as the United States and Germany announced plans to provide heavy tanks for Kyiv on Wednesday. Ukraine says it will now push for Western fourth-generation fighter jets such as the American F-16 after securing dozens of high-end battle tanks from NATO allies.
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