There is no threat of Denmark’s supply of F-16 to Ukraine being disrupted – Foreign Minister

Dmytro Kuleba. Photo: Getty Images

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said there is no threat of disruption of the programme to transfer F-16 fighter jets from Denmark to Ukraine.

Source: Interfax-Ukraine with reference to Kuleba at a joint press conference with his Danish counterpart Lars Løkke Rasmussen in Mykolaiv, as reported by European Pravda

Details: “I thank Lars for his assurances that Denmark’s preparations for the transfer of F-16 fighter jets are going according to plan. So far, there is no threat of this programme being disrupted,” Kuleba said.

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He added that this means that Denmark is keeping its word, and the F-16 fighters that Copenhagen promised Kyiv will be the first ones to be delivered to Ukraine.

Kuleba called the move to provide F-16s to Kyiv a historic one and said that “everything is going according to plan.”

Background:

• The Pentagon expects that Ukraine will receive the first F-16 fighter jets this year, as well as the relevant infrastructure and spare parts.
• Earlier, Norway completed the transfer of two F-16 fighter jets to Denmark to train Ukrainian pilots.
• At the end of December, the first group of Ukrainian pilots received basic training from the Royal Air Force and went to Denmark to learn how to fly F-16s.

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