Monitoring Desk
LONDON: The UK defence minister Ben Wallace said Thursday that he did not rule out providing Kyiv with fighter jets.The Minister told the journalists that they will not rule out anything including the process of fighter jets. Ukraine has requested US-made F-16 fighters to help repel the Russian attack.
London-Kyiv
The US has ruled out any deliveries of F-16s jet fighters to Ukraine for now, but other allies including Poland have shown themselves open to the idea.
Ben Wallace said that he is very open to examining all sorts of systems including jets to provide Kyiv that assistance and help. The defence minister said that these things don’t happen immediately but they are not putting the people of Ukraine at risk.
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His remarks came following London had appeared to rule out sending its warplanes. The prime minister’s official spokesman on Tuesday said that the UK’s F-35 and Typhoon fighter jets are very sophisticated and take several months to learn how to fly. Therefore, it is not practical to provide those jets into Kyiv, PM’s spokesman remarked.
The UK defence minister said even if tomorrow they announced they were going to put them in fast jets that would take several. London said in January that it was sending its battel tanks to Ukraine at the end of March.
