Ukrainian President Zelensky has expressed confidence that we will defeat Russia after acquiring American F-16 fighter jets.
Speaking at a public gathering outside the Danish parliament in Denmark, Zelenskiy said that after the US-made F-16 fighter jets promise, he believes that Ukraine’s forces can respond effectively to Russian attacks, and today we believe that Russia will. It will lose the war.
Foreign news agencies Reuters reports According to Denmark and the Netherlands announced on Sunday that they will deliver the first F-16 jets to Ukraine, with the first six planes to be delivered at the start of the new year. was approved.
Russia has previously warned that providing US jets to Ukraine would escalate the 18-month-old war, with Russian forces occupying about a fifth of Ukraine and Ukraine fighting to drive them out.
“The fact that Denmark has now decided to donate 19 F-16 aircraft to Ukraine has added to the tension in the conflict,” Russian Ambassador Vladimir Barbin said in a statement quoted by the news agency.
In this regard, the Ukrainian media quoted Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ahnat as saying that superiority in the air is the key to success on the ground. Ukrainian military officials have said the jets are critical to the success of its countermeasures because they are critical to preventing Russian fighter jets from advancing.
Denmark’s Defense Minister Jakob Alleman Jensen said that Ukraine could only use the donated F-16s within its borders. We donate weapons under the condition that they are used only to drive the enemy out of Ukrainian territory and not beyond. Be it tanks, fighter jets or anything else.
It should be noted that Denmark will provide a total of 19 jets to Ukraine, while the Netherlands has 42 F-16s, but it has not yet been decided whether all of them will be donated. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi has described the decision as a ‘breakthrough agreement’.
Recall that Ukrainian President Zelensky climbed into the cockpit of an F-16 fighter jet at Denmark’s Skradstrup Air Base. Danish Prime Minister Matt Frederiksen was also present with him.
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