Denmark this month began training eight Ukrainian pilots in flying the jets, the Danish armed forces said. Officials from a coalition of 11 nations have said F-16 training will also take place in Romania. A Ukranian air force spokesman has said he did not expect Ukraine to be able to operate F-16 jets this coming winter. Designed in the 1970s and produced in the 1980s by General Dynamics, now a part of Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), the F-16 jets that Ukraine will receive are around 40-years-old. Russia warned that supplying jets to Ukraine would escalate the war.

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Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Mark Rutte, de Wouw, Mette Frederiksen, Zelenskiy, Oleksiy Reznikov, Lockheed Martin, Esben Salling Larsen, Salling Larsen, Vladimir Barbin, Johannes Birkebaek, Jacob Gronholt, Terje Solsvik, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Dutch, REUTERS, Rights, Danish, Russian, Ukraine's Defence, NATO, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Royal Defence College, WHO, JETS, Gripen, Saab, Pedersen, Thomson Locations: Eindhoven, Netherlands, Denmark, Ukraine, UKRAINE, Danish, Skrydstrup, Greece, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, RUSSIA, Russia, Russian, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Sweden, Copenhagen