CNN —The Netherlands and Denmark will provide Ukraine with much sought-after F-16 aircraft in an agreement hailed by President Volodymyr Zelensky as “historic.”Kyiv has urgently been calling on its Western allies to provide F-16 jets, as its slow-moving counteroffensive is hampered by Russian air superiority.
“The Netherlands became the first country to agree to provide Ukraine with F-16s after training.
Conditions for the transfer include training Ukrainian personnel, setting up infrastructure and logistics, and receiving the necessary authorization, it said.
Out of these 42, we need planes to help training in Denmark and later on in Romania,” Rutte said.
Rutte said that language training for Ukrainian service personnel was ongoing and military training in Denmark would begin soon.
Persons:
Volodymyr Zelensky, Mark Rutte, Ukraine ”, ” Zelensky, ”, Rutte, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ksenia Kuleshova, ” Rutte, Zelensky, Mette Frederiksen, Oleksii Reznikov
Organizations:
CNN, Kyiv, Zelensky, Dutch, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bloomberg, Getty, Danish, Ukraine’s
Locations:
Netherlands, Denmark, Ukraine, Eindhoven, Danish, Romania