Denmark works to expand the coalition of countries willing to supply F-16s to Ukraine

Denmark is working to expand the coalition of countries willing to supply F-16 fighters to Ukraine, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said this Monday during a plenary session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

“Together with our partners, and this is a much-needed message from me today, we are working to broaden and deepen the coalition, so that Ukraine can obtain more F-16s and we can train more pilots,” Frederiksen said.

“We have to deepen this coalition and we have to accelerate because time is not on our side,” added the prime minister.

At the end of August, Denmark and the Netherlands committed to delivering 42 F-16 fighters to Ukraine. In addition, Copenhagen is training Ukrainian pilots in the use of these fighter jets.

For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted in June that the F-16 fighters that the West supplies to kyiv will “burn” like the German Leopard tanks.

Moscow has on more than one occasion condemned the supply of Western weapons to kyiv. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated in July that Russia would consider the delivery of F-16 fighters to kyiv as a threat in the nuclear field, since his country “cannot ignore the ability of these aircraft to carry nuclear weapons.” ». With RT

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