Denmark’s defence minister mentioned Tuesday he anticipated the Danes and allies to determine on whether or not to donate Western fighter jets to Ukraine “before the summer”, as deliveries of Polish and Slovak MiG-29s have begun.
Discussions are taking time as a result of nations must act collectively, performing defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen mentioned throughout a go to to Ukraine.
“Denmark will not do it alone,” Lund Poulsen advised a number of Danish media shops, including {that a} resolution was nonetheless achievable “in the near future.”
“We need to do this together with several countries. We will also have a dialogue with the Americans about this,” the minister mentioned.
Slovakia and Poland started deliveries of Soviet-designed MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine in late March and early April.
Warsaw has mentioned it is able to give away all of its MiG-29s — round 30.
But regardless of requests from Kyiv, no fashionable fighter jets such because the US-designed F-16 have been pledged, and Washington has to date mentioned it could not ship fighter jets.
The Netherlands and France haven’t dominated out sending jets and in February Britain supplied to coach Ukrainian fighter pilots.
Denmark has a fleet of 43 US-designed F-16s, 30 of that are in lively service.
The fleet is being changed by the extra fashionable F-35, of which Denmark has bought 27.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
