BRUSSELS, May 22 EU diplomat Josep Borrell said, that he hopes to start deliveries of fighters to Ukraine soon.
“It is a good idea that the G7 decided to pave the way for the supply of fighters they need to Ukraine. I believe that pilot training has already begun … I hope that in the near future time, we will be able to supply such weapons to Ukraine,» Borrell said before the start of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
During the G7 summit in Hiroshima, US President Joe Biden outlined to Volodymyr Zelensky plans to train Ukrainian pilots to fly the F-16. According to Biden's national security aide Jake Sullivan, the United States and its allies, as Ukrainian pilots are trained on F-16s in the coming months, will decide who will supply these aircraft to Kiev and in what quantity. The American president said that he had received «categorical assurances» from Zelensky that Ukrainian troops would not use American F-16 fighter jets to strike «Russian geographic territory.» On Sunday, Sullivan said that Washington does not allow Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike at the territory of the Russian Federation, but Crimea does not consider it.