“In Britain, the king is an air force pilot,” Zelenskiy said. In his speech to Britain’s parliament, Zelenskiy hailed King Charles III with a reference to his brief period flying RAF planes half a century ago. Ukraine has already identified nearly 50 pilots who would be allowed to leave the country for training and had initially sought to obtain the popular US made F-16 because there are over 3,000 operating worldwide.īut that effort was set back when the US president, Joe Biden, said last week he did not want to supply Ukraine with F-16 fighters for now, prompting Zelenskiy to take his lobbying campaign to the UK, where he is seeking RAF Typhoons. That prompted Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, standing next to Sunak on a surprise visit to the UK, to say the country had experienced pilots who could learn faster: “Come on, we will be sending you pilots who’ve already trained for two and a half years.” On Tuesday, the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, said at a press conference he would consider whether the UK could become the first western nation to donate combat jets to Ukraine – but then warned it could take “three years” to learn to pilot an RAF Typhoon.
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Engineers could learn how to repair a jet like an F-16 in a similar time, the Ukrainian pilot added, because “ground crews can be trained simultaneously”, in an interview as part of Ukraine’s latest lobbying campaign for military aid.
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