"We are working on a concrete timeline for starting the trainings and we feel it is important to do that as soon as possible, we did need the greenlight from Washington DC and it is a co-effort with Denmark, Belgium UK and other allies," Ollongren told reporters ahead of an EU ministerial meeting in Brussels.
The Netherlands will continue discussing with its allies "that might have F16s available about that next step (their possible supply to Ukraine), but that is not on the table right now," Ollongren added.
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A number of countries, including Poland, have begun training Ukrainian pilots in flying F-16 fighter jets, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday.
ReplyDelete"I am happy that finally the training of the pilots of the F16s has started in several countries, it will take time but the sooner the better," Borrell told reporters ahead of a Foreign Affairs Council meeting, noting that the training started, for example, in Poland.
Нидерланды готовы участвовать в подготовке украинских летчиков к полетам на американских истребителях F-16, но о поставках этих самолетов Киеву говорить преждевременно. Министр обороны Кайса Оллонгрен дала комментарий журналистам о возможном участии Нидерландов в очередном этапе военной помощи Украине перед встречей министров ЕС в Брюсселе.
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