Denmark has already handed over most of the promised F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as part of its military assistance, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov stated following the 26th meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine in the Ramstein format, Report informs via Militarnyi.
The rest of the combat aircraft will be delivered to the Ukrainian Air Force in the near future, he stated.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the transfer of the previous, second batch of Danish F-16 fighters to Ukraine in early December last year.
At that time, the planes from the first batch provided by Denmark had already shot down Russian missiles during the occupiers’ shelling of Ukrainian territory.
As of November, the Ukrainian Air Force had 6 Danish F-16 multi-role fighters.
