By William Miller, special correspondent. Eurasia Business News, August 20, 2023

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, at a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said that the Netherlands and Denmark would transfer F-16 fighter jets to Kyiv. President Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram that 42 aircraft will be handed over after Ukrainian pilots are trained to fly them.

At the same time, Reuters reported that the number of aircraft to be transferred to Kyiv is still unknown. According to the press agency, at the moment the Netherlands has only 42 F-16 fighters, and “it is too early to say whether all of them will be transferred to Ukraine.”

President Zelensky, who called the deal a ‘breakthrough agreement,” said the exact number of planes would be discussed ”a little later,'” the Reuters report said.

According to the Associated Press, Mark Rutte’s statement was made a few minutes after the prime minister and Volodymyr Zelensky inspected two gray F-16 aircraft. The planes are parked in a hangar at an air base in the southern city of Eindhoven, where a meeting of politicians is taking place. The agency notes that the fighters will be delivered after the “unnamed conditions” are met.

In a statement by the Danish Foreign Ministry, published on the social network X (formerly Twitter), it is noted that among the conditions for the transfer of aircraft is the solution of problems with documentation, infrastructure and logistics.

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Today, August 20, Volodymyr Zelensky, together with First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska and his team, arrived in the Netherlands to meet with Mark Rutte. It was reported that the meeting will discuss the supply of F-16 fighters to Kyiv and the global “peace summit”.

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On August 18, the US authorities confirmed that they would approve the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to the EU countries as soon as the training of Ukrainian pilots was completed. It may take a year to train Ukrainian crews on the NATO standard fighter jets. In Kiev, the authorities previously expressed the hope that the U.S. comabt aircrafts would help the Ukrainian side to conduct its counteroffensive more successfully.

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The war in Ukraine began in 2014 following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and has since February 24, 2022 escalated into an ongoing international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

The outcome of the war remains highly uncertain, and the conflict has further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world, while strengthening economic partnerships between Russia and the BRICS countries.

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