On Friday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by phone about his government’s decision to prepare the first eighteen F-16 fighter jets for delivery to Ukraine. Rutte informed about it on the X social network. We continue to watch the war in Ukraine online.
Pakistan Army F-16 fighter jet at a military parade in Karachi. | Photo: Reuters
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Summary of highlights:
- The new head of Polish diplomacy, Radoslaw Sikorski, arrived in Kyiv on Friday during his first trip abroad. He will also meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
- The August death of Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin was an assassination on the order of Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, he wrote The Wall Street Journal, citing sources from Western intelligence services and Russia.
- The Netherlands has decided to send the first 18 F-16 fighters to Ukraine.
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The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, which also includes air defense, announced today that Ukrainian soldiers in the south of the country managed to shoot down three modern Russian Su-34 bombers. In wartime conditions, the claims of the warring parties cannot be immediately verified, however, Russian pro-Kremlin news channel Fighterbomber reports the loss of at least one Russian aircraft, and other Russian sources report the loss of more than one machine, the BBC noted on its Russian-language website.
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Japan announced on Friday that it will start sending Patriot anti-missile missiles to the United States, which are manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries under a license granted by American arms companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, following a change in arms export rules. It was reported by the news server BBC News, according to which it would this move could have allowed the US to provide Patriot missiles from its reserves to Ukraine.
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by phone today about his government’s decision to prepare the first 18 F-16 fighter jets for delivery to Ukraine. It was written by Rutte himself on the social network X, and the press agencies drew attention to the Prime Minister’s statement.
Ukraine hopes to overcome Russia’s superiority in the air with modern Western fighter jets. This was one of the factors hindering the progress of this year’s Ukrainian counter-offensive.
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