Having secured supplies of tanks, Ukraine will now try to obtain modern fighters such as the American F-16, an adviser to the Ukrainian Defense Minister said today, quoted by BTA.

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He said this on the day Germany and the United States announced they would supply tanks to Kyiv.

"The next big obstacle now will be fighter jets," Yuri Sak, who is an adviser to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, told Reuters in an interview.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister called on the countries that have Leopard 2 tanks to send as many of them as possible

Ukraine's air force owns outdated Soviet-era fighter jets produced before the country declared independence more than 31 years ago.

"If we get (the Western fighters), the benefits on the battlefield will be enormous... It's not just about (US multirole fighter)

- 16s; what we want are fourth-generation aircraft," Sack added.

Western military support is vital to Kyiv and has grown rapidly over the course of the war.

Before the Russian invasion, the very idea of ​​supplying offensive weapons to Ukraine was extremely controversial, but since then the taboos in this area have been falling one after another.

"They didn't want to give us heavy artillery, and then they did. They didn't want to give us HIMARS systems, and then they did. They didn't want to give us tanks, and now they give us tanks. Apart from nuclear weapons, no there is nothing else left that we will not get," said the adviser to the Ukrainian defense minister.

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