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Transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine has started, but it won’t be ‘a silver bullet’

11th Jul 24 3:09 pm

The US, Denmark and the Netherlands have said the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine has already started and they will โ€œoperational this summer.โ€

The multi-role fighter jets will help to protect Ukraineโ€™s skies and target Russian troops on the eastern front.

Mark Cancian, a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said, “As a symbolic effort, it’s tremendously important… This was really the last item that Zelensky had highlighted as important for Ukrainian defense.โ€

Ukrainian forces have received billions in military aid packages such as ATACMS missiles, HIMARs rocket launchers air defence systems, artillery and so on.

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Cancian said, “In each case, providing that weapon had an important symbolic and psychological impact, putting aside, you know, what the battlefield impact might be.โ€

He cautioned that the F-16 fighter jets “I think it will help for air defenses… but it’s not going to be a silver bullet.โ€

He added there “just aren’t going to be enough of themโ€ to win the war alone.

Last month Ukraineโ€™s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky said that Russia is pushing hard to try and erode Ukrainian forces before the F-16 multi-role fighter jets arrive.

Before Western aide arrives, Russian troops are fighting hard โ€œto maximise the depletionโ€ against Kyivโ€™s forces.

Syrsky said in the Kupyansk, Pokrovsk, Kurakhivska and Vremivka sectors in the Donetsk region, Russian forces have been conducting โ€œactive offensive actions of varying intensity.โ€

He added, โ€œThe enemy is well aware that as a result of the gradual receipt of a significant amount of weapons and military equipment from our partners, and the arrival of the first F-16s, which will strengthen our air defense, time will play in our favor and [the Kremlinโ€™s] chances of success will decrease.”

There are fears in the Kremlin and amongst military bloggers that the Ukrainian โ€˜aviation armadaโ€™ of F-16 fighter jets will blitz Russian military targets in Crimea.

Ukrainian forces have destroyed Russiaโ€™s air-defence systems which have failed to shoot down US supplied missiles.

US supplied ATACMS which is a ballistic missile have blown up various Russian targets and have a range of 186 miles.

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