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Feb 8, 2023

UK To Begin Training Ukrainian Pilots On NATO Fighter Jets

Its seems apparent that the training would not be promised or commenced without the expectation that provision to Ukraine of NATO fighter jets was sure to follow. JL 

The Defense Post reports, image Serge Supinsky AFP:

The UK will offer fighter jet training to Ukraine. Downing Street announced that the UK was planning “to train fighter jet pilots and marines” from the Ukrainian armed forces. “The prime minister will offer to bolster the UK’s training offer for Ukrainian troops, including expanding it to fighter jet pilots to ensure Ukraine can defend its skies well into the future." The training would “ensure pilots are able to fly sophisticated NATO-standard fighter jets in the future.”

The UK will offer fighter jet training to Ukraine as Western allies debate how much military aid to give Kyiv amid warnings of an impending Russian offensive in the east.

The news comes on the back of Volodymyr Zelensky’s announcement to visit the UK on Wednesday, in the Ukrainian leader’s second overseas trip since Russian troops invaded his country nearly a year ago.

Downing Street said Zelensky would meet Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and address parliament, announcing that the UK was planning “to train fighter jet pilots and marines” from the Ukrainian armed forces.

“The prime minister will offer to bolster the UK’s training offer for Ukrainian troops, including expanding it to fighter jet pilots to ensure Ukraine can defend its skies well into the future,” Sunak’s office said.

The training would “ensure pilots are able to fly sophisticated NATO-standard fighter jets in the future”, it added.

Sunak will also “offer to begin an immediate training programme for marines”, it added.

In December, Zelensky flew to the United States on his first foreign trip since Russia’s invasion, where he appealed for long-term US support in Congress and held talks at the White House with President Joe Biden.

He subsequently stopped in Poland on his return home for talks with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

Zelensky has been pressing his Western allies for heavy tanks amid warnings that Russia is building up men and tanks for another major offensive in the east.

Moscow said Tuesday that Russian forces were advancing towards Bakhmut and Vugledar — two key centers of fighting in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, now the flashpoint of the war.



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