NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

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[Compilation of Chen Chengliang/Comprehensive Report] After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called out the aid record of Western allies in February and "planted wings for freedom", the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Stoltenberg (Jens Stoltenberg) ) stated that it does not rule out the delivery of Western fighter jets to Ukraine by NATO allies.

In an interview published by the British "Guardian" on the 22nd, Stoltenberg revealed this intention to aid Ukraine.

He pointed out that the West has provided a lot of military equipment, including combat vehicles, combat armored vehicles and rockets, with the goal of "enabling the Ukrainians to attack and take back territory", but he did not rule out further assistance from NATO members to Ukrainian F-16 or other Western Jet Fighter.

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This month, Poland and Slovakia agreed to provide 17 MiG-29 fighters, but the total number of fighters available to the Ukrainian military remains small.

Stoltenberg said NATO "has not made any decisions yet on the F-16" despite U.S. President Joe Biden's apparent initial refusal to provide U.S.-made fighter jets as it continues to respond to the need to improve Ukraine's air combat capabilities.

It is understood that the training of Ukrainian pilots using Mirage 2000 multi-purpose fighter jets has been conducted in France for one and a half months.

Recently, France has been phasing out the Mirages in favor of the Rafals, but the modified Mirage 2000-Cs are considered to be quite good fighters and, after additional repairs, could be sold to interested nations.

Earlier, CNN reported that a source pointed out that the United States is working with Ukrainian pilots to determine how much time they need to complete the F-16 fighter jet training.

However, a U.S. government official pointed out that the United States is only evaluating the driving ability of the two pilots, not conducting flight training, and the two will not actually fly the plane, but there are 10 pilots who may join them.

Stoltenberg warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no immediate plans for peace in Ukraine, so the West needs to be prepared to provide deadly aid to Kiev for a long time to come.