(Reykjavik Comprehensive) Britain and the Netherlands promised to establish an international alliance to assist Ukraine to obtain the F-16 fighter aircraft and conduct operation training for the Ukraine pilots.
The European Council held a summit on Iceland on Tuesday (May 16), and British Prime Minister Sonak held a bilateral meeting with the Dutch Prime Minister Lutter during the summit.A spokesman for the Sunak Office issued a statement saying that the leaders of the two countries agreed to cooperate to establish an international alliance to provide air combat capabilities for Ukraine. From purchasing F-16 fighters to how to operate, they will give full support.
Since the outbreak of the Russian and Ukraine War, Ukraine has repeatedly emphasized that the F-16 fighter aircraft has been essential to defend Russian missiles and drones.However, although Ukrainian President Zeleki has repeatedly called, no international allies are willing to provide this fighter.
Regarding Yinghe's latest statement, Zeleiski said that this was the good start of the league and thanked them for their support.
Zelei has visited Germany, France, and Britain this week to win the support of these three European powers.He visited Sunak in the Chequers villas on the outskirts of London on Monday (15th) that he was very optimistic about establishing a fighter alliance to assist Ukraine against Russia.
Sunak: UK plans to offer flight school training Ukraine pilots
Sunak also said on the same day that Britain was preparing to open a flight school to train Ukrainian pilots.In addition, French President Macron also proposed to assist in training Ukraine pilots, but the possibility of eliminating fighters to Ukraine.
The British Air Force does not have a F-16 fighter, but the Netherlands and Belgium have this fighter.The U.S. Air Force has nearly 800, but the United States has no intention of providing this fighter to Ukraine.The F-16 fighter is made by the US arms company Lockheed Middot; Martin, which currently serves as 3,000 in 25 countries and regions around the world.
Although it did not provide a fighter, Western countries, including the United States, provided the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine.However, two U.S. officials revealed on Tuesday that Ukraine's American Patriot missile defense system is likely to be damaged in Russia's continuous air strikes.
An unnamed US official said that the patriot's missile defense system seemed to be slightly damaged, but it was not destroyed by the Russian missiles and was repaired on the spot.The US government has discussed the best way to repair this system with Kiev, and it seems that it does not have to withdraw it out of Ukraine.
Ukraine now deploys two US -made Patriot missile missile defense systems, provided by the United States and Germany, respectively. It is not clear which system is damaged.The US Pentagon did not talk about this.
In addition, the leaders of the 46 member states of the European Council stated at the summit held by Iceland that they supported Ukraine, unanimously opposed Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, and will be held accountable for Moscow and claimed war compensation.
They hope that the summit will have practical results, especially two months after the International Criminal Court announced the arrest warrant to Russia President Putin, the European Council will approve a registered register (register of damages) to record the damage caused by Russia's invasionRelated evidence and claim mechanism.
