According to the defence minister of Ukraine, he hopes that training will only take six months so that fighter planes can begin combating Russia soon.
According to officials speaking on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Lithuania, the training of Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets will start in Romania in August.
On Tuesday, acting Danish defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen, Dutch defence minister Kajsa Ollongren, and Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov announced the Romania training programme.
“Hopefully, we will be able to see results in the beginning of next year,” Poulsen told reporters.
Resnikov said he hoped the training would last no longer than six months and that by that point, Ukraine will be using the combat aircraft in its fight against Russia’s invasion of his country.