The United States announced new information on deliveries of F-16s to Ukraine

The United States announced new information on the supply of F-16 to Ukraine Diana Kwasniewska

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New statements regarding the F-16 for Ukraine should be expected next week. They may be voiced when the NATO summit takes place in Washington.

The Alliance summit will take place on July 9-11. During a telephone briefing, a senior U.S. administration official explained that the news would concern new announcements in the context of the program to provide Ukraine with F-16 aircraft.

What Ukraine should expect regarding the F-16

The United States has been training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 platform for over a year, and we have made significant progress, the U.S. administration official said.

He also answered a question about whether there would be statements regarding the F-16 for Ukraine at the NATO summit in Washington.

According to the official, he expects that “next week we will have something additional to announce” in this regard. The US administration representative did not say what exactly this was about.

By the way, Foreign Policy wrote that the first US-made F-16 fighter jets will be in Ukrainian skies around June 2024.

Earlier it was said that Denmark would send the planes first, and then the Netherlands.

Literally on July 2, the Dutch Minister of Defense informed the House of Representatives that they had completed the processing of a license to export F-16s to Ukraine.

Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren assured that the Netherlands had granted permission to export 24 F-16 fighter jets and 7 engines for these planes to Ukraine.