Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said several Western countries were ready to provide Kyiv with ‘aircraft’ to defeat Russia's invasion. Here are some details on the jets that Ukraine wants, and what it might get
Britain has said it would take years for Ukrainian pilots to learn how to operate new jet models, after Zelenskiy asked for Eurofighter Typhoon jets in London this week.
"This is not a simple case of towing an aircraft to the border," British Defence Minister Ben Wallace told the BBC. Britain has not committed to send any of its own Typhoons and said Ukrainian pilots might only be trained to fly Western planes after the war is over. Wallace said Britain would also need the consent of the other countries who make the Eurofighter - Germany, Italy and Spain - to send them.Justin Bronk from the RUSI think tank said giving Typhoons to Ukraine would be a "very expensive symbolic gesture".
He said the Typhoons and F-16s would need to operate from smooth runways and centralised bases, while Sweden's Gripen planes could fly at lower altitudes and be serviced on shorter, rougher airstrips.Ukraine is confident it will, and has pointed to previous times when allies were initially reluctant to send sophisticated weaponry, only to relent later.
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