UK Defense Secretary Not Ruling Out Delivery Of Military Aircraft To Ukraine

UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said on Wednesday that London has yet to make a "solid decision" not to supply Kiev with fighter jets and expressed his opinion that it is not the right approach "for now."

"I've been involved with this for a pretty long time. And I've learned two things: never rule anything in and never rule anything out... For now, I don't think that's the right approach ... What's going to move on this conflict this year is going to be the ability for Ukrainians to deploy western armour against Russia," Wallace said when asked about possible delivery of fighter jets to Ukraine by London, as quoted by The Guardian.

On Tuesday, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesman ruled out the delivery of fighter jets to Ukraine, saying it would not be "practical" as "UK's Typhoon and F-35 fighter jets are extremely sophisticated and take months to learn how to fly."