19-06-2024, 09:02 AM
Will long-awaited F-16 fighter jets boost Ukraine’s push against Russia?
Kyiv’s forces are due to receive the aircraft within weeks, but analysts say they are unlikely to be a game-changer.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen sit in a F-16 fighter jet at Skrydstrup Airbase in Vojens, Denmark, August 20, 2023. Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen via REUTERS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen sit in a F-16 fighter jet at Skrydstrup airbase in Vojens, Denmark, on August 20, 2023 [Ritzau
Kyiv, Ukraine – The first US-made F-16 fighter jets have yet to appear in the sky over Ukraine, but there’s already a bounty on them. Fores, a Russian company produces equipment for oil drilling, said can pay 15 mil rubles, or $170,000, to the first Russian pilot who shoots down an F-16.![Tongue Tongue](https://sgtalk.net/images/smilies/tongue.png)
General Ihor Romanenko, ex-deputy head of Ukraine’s general staff of armed forces, told Al Jazeera. “But we will serve them, hide them, equip and use them.” First dozen of F-16s are expected to arrive in Ukraine within weeks as their pilots complete their training.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/18...ghter-jets
Kyiv’s forces are due to receive the aircraft within weeks, but analysts say they are unlikely to be a game-changer.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen sit in a F-16 fighter jet at Skrydstrup Airbase in Vojens, Denmark, August 20, 2023. Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen via REUTERS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen sit in a F-16 fighter jet at Skrydstrup airbase in Vojens, Denmark, on August 20, 2023 [Ritzau
Kyiv, Ukraine – The first US-made F-16 fighter jets have yet to appear in the sky over Ukraine, but there’s already a bounty on them. Fores, a Russian company produces equipment for oil drilling, said can pay 15 mil rubles, or $170,000, to the first Russian pilot who shoots down an F-16.
![Tongue Tongue](https://sgtalk.net/images/smilies/tongue.png)
General Ihor Romanenko, ex-deputy head of Ukraine’s general staff of armed forces, told Al Jazeera. “But we will serve them, hide them, equip and use them.” First dozen of F-16s are expected to arrive in Ukraine within weeks as their pilots complete their training.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/18...ghter-jets