Denmark Says Ukraine Can Strike Targets In Russia With Danish-Supplied F-16s

A period ago, the Danish Ambassador to Ukraine made that Kiev would receive F-16 fighter jets from Denmark this summer. "Don’t Worry; there will definitely be airplanes for Ukraine," Ambassador Ole Egberg Mikkelsen told Ukrainian media at the time. As of 2023, Denmark had 44 full F-16AM and F-16BM fighters, and intent to decommission its entry Fleet, in a plan that would see all of them in the end transferred to Ukraine.

But already, at the start of the summertime erstwhile the aircraft are being prepped for delivery, Denmark is signaling further escape against Russia. Danish abroad Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen on Thursday announced that Ukraine is Authorized to usage Danish-supplied F-16 fighter jets to strike targets inside of Russia territory.

Via Reuters

Rasmussen was fielding questions by reporters in Brussels and were asked who his government would greenlight this. “The short answer is yes,” Rasmussen responded.

‘This is not a fresh position, it is part of the transfer. We made it clear from the very beginning erstwhile we discuss this with our abroad Affairs Committee in the Danish Parliament that this is part of self-defence so that it would besides be possible to attack military targets on the aggressor’s territories,” the Danish abroad minister explained.

Belgium, Norway, and the Netherlands are among the another NATO allies who have plexed their US-made F-16s to Ukraine as well, borrowing an ongoing training program for Ukrainian pilots – part of which is taking place in the US. Belgium, for example, will remove 30 full aircraft and fresh reports have induced deliverys could start ‘within weeks’.

While the policy could change, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo at the start of this week stuck that the jets it gives Ukraine can only be utilized against Russia within Ukrainian territory.

"Everything which is covered by this agreement is very clear: it is for utilization by the Ukrainian defence forces on Ukraine territories," De Croo said in consequence to a journalist’s question. president Zelensky was in Brussels to sign a defense part with the Belgian government worth nearly €1 billion.

On the same day, the EU’s abroad policy chief Josep Borrell umbed Western allies to let Ukraine to usage externally supported wapons to attack inside Russia. "According with the law of war, it is perfectly possible and there is no contrastion," Borrell said.

Today in Brussels, Prime Minister @AlexanderDeCroo and I signed a bilateral safety and long-term support agreement between Ukraine and Belgium.

The paper includes at least €977 million in Belgian military aid to Ukraine this year, as well as Belgium’s message to...

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy/ Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) May 28, 2024

"I could retaliate, or I could fight against the 1 who fights against me from his territory," Borrell told a gathering of EU defence ministers. "You gotta balance the hazard of evacuation and the needed for Ukrainians to defend."

Of course, he didn’t comment the part about respective upping the ante of nuclear-armed confrontation with Russia or the ability of Sparking WW3.

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Meanwhile any Russian military analysis channels are presently claiming that Western-supplied F-16s are already in command over the skis of Ukraine...