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The first F-16s have arrived in Ukraine, it is reported, but Kyiv remains tight-lipped about the jets it has spent so long pleading for. 

The Netherlands said Ukraine will be free to use F-16s to attack targets within Russia as the Kremlin has warned of “fatal consequences”.

“Our task is to use the first F-16 on the battlefield this year and in such way fortify our positions,” Zelenskyy said.

Argentina signed a deal Tuesday worth about 2.1 billion kroner ($300 million) to buy 24 of Denmark´s aging F-16 fighter jets.

The Biden administration has approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey after Ankara ratified Sweden’s membership in NATO.

Over the weekend President Biden again mocked gun owners, suggesting they will need F-16 fighter jets if they are really serious about taking on the government.

Ukraine will reportedly need to wait up to an additional half year before receiving the F-16 fighter jets promised to the country by Denmark.

The Dutch government announced Friday it is preparing to give 18 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, in a boost for the embattled nation.

Four F-35 fighter jets landed Thursday at an airbase in Denmark to replace aging fleet of F-16s, some of which have been promised to Ukraine.

Ukraine needs “powerful and long-range weapons” because Russia’s air superiority allowed them to “stop our counteroffensive”, Zelensky said.

Ukrainian authorities have launched an investigation after a midair collision between two warplanes that killed three pilots.

Anyone who directed Breaking the Waves (1999) should be allowed to say whatever he wants. 

Numerous reports Thursday said NATO-member Norway has rushed to follow the Netherlands and Denmark to donate U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.

“Extremely important that Ukraine’s other coalition partners make similar decisions” said govt advisor after two countries pledged jets.

First delivery could be as early this year but it comes with a condition of no strikes beyond Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders. 

President Volodymyr Zelenksy claimed the Netherlands will send all its F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine after meeting Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

Ukraine has apparently come to terms with there being no donations of fighter jets during the counter offensive, or even this year at all.

President Joe Biden met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on Tuesday and praised the authoritarian Turkish leader for having the “courage” to stop blocking Sweden from joining the alliance.

Ukraine’s top general blamed the slow progress of the counteroffensive against Russia on a lack of Western supplied weaponry and fighter jets.

A former U.S. ambassador and Special Rep for Ukraine has said the country should send A-10 ‘Warthogs’, saying “we could be doing more”. 

President Joe Biden has told Turkey to aid the U.S. in expanding NATO if the country wants to buy American fighter jets.

Advanced Western fighter jets won’t make it to Ukraine in time to be felt in the long-discussed Spring offensive, says the U.S.

President Biden claimed that Ukrainian’s Zelensky vowed American-made F-16 fighter jets will not be used to attack the Russian mainland.

Kyiv appears to have dropped its campaign to get British fighter jets, instead taking the UK’s assistance in getting American F-16s.

Ukraine is grateful to the West for the deployment of advanced anti-air missile systems but they are not enough and “much more” is needed. 

A bipartisan group of senators called on the Pentagon on Tuesday to “take a hard look” at sending advanced U.S. fighter jets to Ukraine to aid the country in its war with Russia.

“There will be planes, too,” Reznikov predicted. “The question is just what kind exactly… Consider that this mission is already completed.”

Moscow has slammed suggestions that the West should send fighter jets to Ukraine, labelling the idea that such a transfer of weapons might not escalate tensions “absurd”.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he will not rule out sending fighter jets to Ukraine, reports have claimed.

The Ukrainian government is pushing the envelope further, with discussions about more sophisticated military equipment advancing.

Russian military aircraft entered South Korea’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Tuesday without giving Seoul prior notice, prompting the Republic of Korea Air Force to scramble fighter jets in response, Yonhap News Agency reported.

Armenia’s prime minister asked the U.S. to address Turkey’s alleged use of American-made F-16 jets in support of Azerbaijan in its recent conflict against Armenia in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, a report claimed on Sunday.

Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) signed a deal with American defense contractor Lockheed Martin on Tuesday to build a maintenance facility for F-16 jet fighters, which Taiwan purchases from the U.S. for defense.

A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday in western France, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving a pilot suspended for two hours from a high-voltage electricity line after his parachute got caught, according to French authorities.

A Chinese military official warned that Beijing will not sit “idly by” if the United States proceeds to sell F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, suggesting China may consider action beyond sanctioning firms associated with the deal.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday threatened to impose sanctions against American companies involved in a proposed $8 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, instructing the United States to “immediately back away” from the sale.