A F-16 fighter jet. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Training of Ukrainian pilots to operate F-16 fighter jets hasn’t yet begun, according to Yurii Ihnat, the Ukrainian Air Force spokesman.
“The process of getting people ready to start this training is still ongoing. Advance teams have traveled to countries that can provide us with training sites. The assessment of how that process will go is underway. The pilots themselves are not in the countries yet,” he said on the national telethon, according to UNIAN.
He added that he, “unfortunately,” had to deny information about the start of the training more than once, so that there were no false hopes.
Earlier, the EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said that the training of the Ukrainian pilots for the F-16 has started in several countries, such as Poland.
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