KYIV – Ukraine will likely receive it first shipment of advanced F-16s in the next few days, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a phone call as Kyiv seeks to disrupt Russia’s air superiority over Ukrainian skies amid continued battles on December 23 in the east and south of the country.
“Today, I informed President Zelenskiy of our government’s decision to prepare an initial 18 F-16 fighter aircraft for delivery to Ukraine,” Rutte said late on December 22 in a post on social media platform X.
Sounds like a bad idea to announce when the hardware will be moving. We’ve seen past weapons transfers announced to be happening “soon” though they’ve already occurred. They may well already be in Ukraine.
According to MBFC, RFERL frequently publishes pro-US government propaganda. Why is this source allowed?
Do you have any actual issues with the article or do you just want to sow doubt and discord?
Is Reuters fine as a source? How about the Dutch PM himself?
Does anyone know what kind of timeline there might be before the pilots are trained to fly them? Is it something that might have an impact within days/weeks or is it going to be months before they can be used effectively?
I’m pretty sure ukrainian pilots have already been trained. So they should be ready to use as soon as they’re delivered.
now zelensky can hit putin at home
What? How? F16 are good fucking planes but they are not strategic bombers…
- fly to Moscow
- blow it up
- fly home
really simple actually
Oh, right, makes perfect sense. I heard Russians had that simple of a plan too.
Fuck YES
