Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy palms over the flag of a army unit on the event of Air Forces Day in opposition to the backdrop of Ukrainian Air Drive F-16 fighter jets at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024. | Photograph credit score: AP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Tuesday (August 27, 2024) that his army has deployed Western-supplied F-16 fighter jets to shoot down drones and missiles that Russia fired in latest assaults.
Mr Zelenskyy introduced earlier this month that Ukraine had obtained the primary batch of fighter jets promised by Western international locations, declining to say what number of had been delivered.
“We have now already destroyed some missiles and drones with the assistance of F-16s,” Zelensky stated at a press convention in kyiv on Tuesday (August 27, 2024).
On the press convention he stated that Ukraine nonetheless wanted extra plane.
In Could, he advised media that kyiv wanted a minimum of 120 to realize “parity” with Russia.
For greater than two years, Ukraine had been asking its Western companions for the aircraft, lengthy thought of the crown jewel within the in depth record of army gear that kyiv has sought.
