F-16 fighter jets will lastly take to the skies over Ukraine this summer time, Dutch Air Drive Commander Arnoud Stallmann stated, talking from a army base within the southern Netherlands, as quoted by the Guardian. “Round this summer time, every part will fall into line,” he stated, talking in entrance of two disused F-16s inside a hangar on the bottom, the place a latest program to coach Ukrainians in plane upkeep had simply concluded. planes. Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway have dedicated to supplying Ukraine with round 80 US-made F-16 fighter jets that the Ukrainian air pressure has been requesting for greater than a yr. However the schedule to get the planes off the bottom has been marred by delays in supply and coaching.
The Ukrainian air protection forces, in the meantime, destroyed all enemy targets with which Russia attacked Kiev in the course of the evening. The army administration of the town of Kiev reported this on Telegram. «The night-time air alert within the capital was linked to the specter of an assault carried out by drones. Based on the primary out there information, enemy drones have been launched from the south, flew by the areas of Mykolayiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Chernihiv and tried to assault Kiev from the north-eastern course,” the message reads. Based on the town administration, all enemy targets have been destroyed by the forces and anti-aircraft protection as they approached the Ukrainian capital. To date there was no injury or casualties reported within the Ukrainian capital.
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2024-06-21 05:17:25
