After artillery and tanks, combat planes? While the Russian army is back on the offensive, kyiv fears a major operation in the coming weeks. Taking advantage of his visit to London and then to Paris on Wednesday, before passing through Brussels on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again called on his Western allies to deliver him to the “earlier” fighter planes.
In the opinion of experts, the fighter planes would make it possible to strike in depth the Russian troops and to dissuade the bombers from pounding urban centers and energy infrastructures. But they would not be the miracle military solution on their own and would come with their share of constraints, in particular the training of pilots. The United Kingdom has announced that Ukrainians will be trained, but “ctakes much longer than training a tank pilot”recalls on condition of anonymity a former general of the air force, joined by TF1info. “It also depends, obviously, on the level of the drivers you have to train.