‘We will get F-16s’: Ukraine aims for NATO’s fighter jets after winning battle for Western tanks
2023-01-27 08:07:32 source：CNBC
January 26, 2023
The dust has barely settled on the decision by the U.S. and Germany to supply battle tanks to Ukraine, but talk has already turned to the possible use of other firepower, namely, fighter jets.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude to Kyiv’s allies Wednesday regarding the sending of tanks, but said he had asked NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for more assistance.
“We have to unlock the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine, it is important for us to expand our cooperation in artillery, we have to achieve the supply of aircraft to Ukraine. And this is a dream. And this is a task,” he said in his nightly address.
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