Jets are in our sky and officially today, you
see them and it's good that they came and we
can use that. Ukrainian pilots will now be flying
in us. Made F-16s for operations within the country
. Said President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, the long
awaited fighter jets arrived more than 29 months after Russia's
invasion of Ukraine Zelensky said, however, the country
still did not have enough jets or pilots but he
noted many soldiers are now undergoing training. It remains
unclear how many jets Ukraine received and how much impact
they will have on the battlefield. Kiev has long
lobbied for the F-16s due to their destructive power and
global availability. It currently has an aging fleet of
Soviet era warplanes. We probably we had hundreds of
meetings and talks to strengthen the capabilities of our aviation
to strengthen the capabilities of our air defense system of
our defense forces. We often heard it is impossible
as an answer but we still made our ambition,
our defensive need possible. Now this is reality,
reality in our skies. F-16s are in Ukraine.
The new jets come equipped with a 20 millimeter cannon
and can carry bombs, rockets and missiles. Russia
has been targeting bases that may house the F-16s and
vow to shoot them down.