{"id":32094,"date":"2023-05-17T03:23:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T03:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=32094"},"modified":"2023-05-17T03:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T03:24:44","slug":"ukraine-receives-jet-fighter-support-pledge-from-uk-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=32094","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine receives jet fighter support pledge from UK, Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Jazeera News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prime ministers of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, Rishi Sunak and Mark Rutte, have agreed to build an \u201cinternational coalition\u201d to provide fighter jet support for Ukraine, a key item of military equipment Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long sought from Western allies supporting his country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/5\/17\/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-448\">fight against Russian forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Prime Minister and Prime Minister Rutte agreed they would work to build&nbsp;(an) international coalition to provide Ukraine with combat air capabilities, supporting with&nbsp;everything from training to procuring F16 jets,\u201d a spokesman for Sunak\u2019s Downing Street office said in a statement on Tuesday following a meeting at the Council of Europe Summit in Iceland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe prime minister reiterated his belief that Ukraine\u2019s rightful place is in NATO and the leaders agreed on the importance of allies providing long-term security assistance to Ukraine to guarantee they can deter against future attacks,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most NATO members in Europe have kept open the possibility of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/1\/29\/germanys-scholz-says-he-will-continue-talks-with-putin\">sending their&nbsp;F-16s&nbsp;to Ukraine<\/a>, even as President Joe Biden said as recently as January that the United States would not do so, Al Jazeera\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/1\/31\/f-16s-would-give-ukraine-an-advantage-but-risk-escalation\">John Psaropoulos reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Psaropoulos, air defence experts say US-built F-16 fighter jets would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2023\/1\/31\/russia-ukraine-live-news-western-allies-at-odds-over-fighter-jets\">offer Ukraine an edge<\/a> over the Russian air force, but only if combined with powerful missiles and targeting information, which the West would also have to provide and which would risk drawing Ukraine\u2019s Western allies more actively into the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rutte said in a tweet on Tuesday that he and Sunak had spoken about issues \u201cwe\u2019re working on together and, of course, about our ongoing joint support for Ukraine in the face of the terrible Russian aggression\u201d. The Dutch prime minister did not mention the provision of fighter jet support and training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera News: The prime ministers of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, Rishi Sunak and Mark Rutte, have agreed to build an \u201cinternational coalition\u201d to provide fighter jet support for Ukraine, a key item of military equipment Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long sought from Western allies supporting his country\u2019s fight against Russian forces. \u201cThe Prime Minister and Prime Minister Rutte agreed they would work to build&nbsp;(an) international coalition to provide Ukraine with combat air capabilities, supporting with&nbsp;everything from training to procuring F16 jets,\u201d a spokesman for Sunak\u2019s Downing Street office said in a statement on Tuesday following a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32098,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32094\/revisions\/32098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}