Ukrainian pilots did not begin training with Western fighter jets in June as planned, and now the schedule is changing.
Training of Ukrainian F-16 pilots did not start in June, as planned, and now the training schedule is starting to shift. This is what Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmitry Kuleba said on the air of the telethon.
According to him, “one of the countries” promised Ukraine to start training Ukrainians in F-16 fighters last month, but this did not happen due to an error in calculations.
Kuleba noted that he was previously confident that Ukraine would receive the fighters “in the first months of next year,” as F-16 training was supposed to begin in June.
“In June, the training did not start. This means that the schedule is starting to shift … We are now working with all the parties involved, with all the countries participating in the aviation coalition, to speed up this process as much as possible,” he said.
The Foreign Minister explained that this is a very complicated process: training pilots and engineers, preparing the infrastructure, “making the necessary legal decisions, in fact, on the transfer of aircraft.”
“The training did not start. There was a promise to start the training in June from one of the countries, now they say that they continue to prepare for the start of the training, they made a mistake in the calculations, they need more time. But we don’t have time , so we speed up everything as much as possible,” – he summed up.
Remember, on June 26, the Danish Ministry of Defense announced that they began training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16.
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Source: korrespondent
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