Ukraine to receive modern fighter jets only when hostilities end, UK Defense Minister

Moscow: Ukraine will receive fighter jets such as Eurofighter Typhoon only after the end of hostilities in the country, UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace told German weekly on Saturday.

“No quick fighter jet deliveries should be expected at least at this stage and “almost certainly” in the next six months. Much time will pass before any country sends fighter aircraft to Ukraine, he acknowledged,” Wallace was quoted by Sputnik as saying.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Britain and others last week to give Ukraine “wings for freedom” by sending combat aircraft to help turn the tide against Russia’s offensive, hoping to overcome Western reluctance to take that step.

Western countries have scaled up their pledges of military aid for Ukraine this year with promises of hundreds of tanks and armoured vehicles as well as longer-range weapons, but have so far refused to deliver warplanes.

Earlier Zelenskiy praised Britain and the West for the support and the sanctions they had provided so far in an address to lawmakers from across the political spectrum in the Gothic expanse of parliament’s Westminster Hall in London.

But, offering an air force helmet with the message “we have freedom, give us wings to protect it” to the speaker of the House of Commons, the lower house of parliament, Zelenskiy called on the West to deliver up the fighter jets.

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