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No F-16s This Year, Acknowledges Ukraine While Holding Out Hope For ‘Good News Soon’
Breitbart ^ | 08/17/2023 | OLIVER JJ LANE

Posted on 08/17/2023 7:03:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Ukraine has apparently now come to terms with there being no foreign donations of fighter jets during the count offensive, or even this year at all, one of the nation’s top spokesmen has said.

Spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force Yuriy Ihnat, a figure frequently heard on the world stage pleading for more military equipment, said it had now become “obvious” there would be no foreign fighter jets coming this year on Ukrainian television.

Per a translation offered by Ukraine’s state media service Ukrinform, Ihnat said on Thursday: “It is already obvious that we will not be able to protect Ukraine with F-16 jets this autumn and winter”. There was hope, however, given pilots were now in the process of being trained to operate NATO jets like the F-16, emphasising that he wanted the aircraft to contribute to defending Ukrainian cities against “Russian missile and drone attacks”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: f16s; good; news; oliverjjlane; ukraine; wwiii
Who is going to train people to fly these jets?? Seems like a waste of time to me.
1 posted on 08/17/2023 7:03:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Biden is keeping them to use on us. I remember his threat. Treasonous SOB. He’d use them on Americans before he’d use them against the Chinese.


2 posted on 08/17/2023 7:19:16 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I aim to misbehave.)
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Who? The US and NATO countries are training them.


3 posted on 08/17/2023 7:38:30 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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UMCRevMom@aol.com's favorite and daily-promoted vlogger, Denys Davydov is a pilot and prolific YouTube content creator most surely living as a legal resident of Switzerland for many years. (So says YouTube itself as well as a number of other sources.)

He is so "invested" in the Ukraine fight against the Russians as his monetized YouTube channel daily shows, one may be assured this experienced and English-speaking pilot will shortly return to the battle, and take up training to fly a fighter jet against the Russians.

But maybe not.

Probably not. Because the "money and clicks" battle trumps a real battle.

4 posted on 08/17/2023 8:04:46 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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