President Volodymyr Zelenksy claimed the Netherlands will send all its F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine after meeting Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who is currently serving in a caretaker role until the autumn elections, was also far more ambiguous than his Ukranian counterpart, saying: “We need some of them to help with training in Denmark and soon also in Romania. We’re going to see if we can supply the rest of the devices, but we don’t yet know exactly how many we can deliver.”
In July, a Western coalition of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom pledged to help train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s. President Zelensky has a history of putting the cart before the horse when it comes to the supply of Western fighter jets, with the Ukrainian leader using his address to the British parliament in February to thank the United Kingdom “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen react as they sit in an F-16 fighter jet in the hangar of the Skrydstrup Airbase in Vojens, northern Denmark, on August 20, 2023.
Following his visit to the Netherlands, Zelensky also travelled to Denmark on Sunday, where he said he would also be discussing the issue of F-16s with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. The pair were both pictured sitting inside the cockpit of one of Demmark’s F-16s. Frederiksen said that Denmark is prepared to send 19 of the jets to Ukraine.” that F-16 jets would not be used to attack the Russian mainland for fear of expanding the proxy war in Eastern Europe into a wider conflict.
However, it is unclear how the Kremlin will respond if American-made jets are used to attack territories Moscow currently controls in Ukraine and indeed considers its own, such as in the Donbas or the Crimean Peninsula, which Vladimir Putin annexed in 2014.
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