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Bloomberg: West says pilot training will take too long

The US and EU countries have said they will not supply Ukraine with military aircraft, despite Zelensky's requests, Bloomberg reports. According to Ukraine's allies, this makes no sense, since the training of fighter pilots takes too much time.

One of the representatives of the department suggested that there is a possibility of a scenario similar to the one with the supply of Abrams tanks

Some Pentagon officials reacted with skepticism to the words of US President Joe Biden that Washington would not supply Kiev with F-16 fighter jets. The Washington Post writes about this on Tuesday , citing sources .

According to the newspaper, the delivery can be carried out privately, and not through the American government

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) has offered Ukraine to purchase two MQ-9 Reaper drones from it for $1. As The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, a possible deal will have to be approved by the administration of US President Joe Biden.

The Swiss Defense Procurement and Technology Agency (Armasuisse) handed over to the command of the country's Air Force the first two (out of six ordered) Hermes-900 HFE (Heavy Fuel Engine) reconnaissance UAVs to Elbit Systems.

As the publication reported, the final figure will depend on the condition of 53 combat vehicles stored for about 10 years in Zaragoza

The Spanish authorities plan to transfer from four to six refurbished Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine as part of the first delivery. This was reported on Wednesday by the newspaper El Pais, citing government sources.

Ukraine may in the future receive a large number of British Challenger tanks of the first series. The German concern Rheinmetall proposed to modernize outdated armored vehicles with the subsequent transfer of its Ukrainian army. This is reported by the German press.

France will transfer another 12 CAESAR self-propelled guns to Ukraine. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced on January 31 by the country's Defense minister Sebastian Lecorny.

Lithuania continues to raise funds for the purchase of weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Lithuanian journalist Andrius Tapinas, representing the Internet television "Laisves TV", who previously initiated a fundraiser for the purchase of the Bayraktar TB2 UAV and UAV counteraction systems for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with the organizations Blue/Yellow, 1K fondas, Stiprus kartu and the National radio and Television of Lithuania, announced his intention to supply the Armed Forces with new multifunctional tactical radars of Israeli production.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a visit to Japan that Greece would not supply Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

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Ukraine may receive the first tanks within the framework of international agreements reached in January this year from Spain, Canada, Poland and France in the coming weeks. Germany will be able to deliver Leopard 2 from its reserves no earlier than the end of March. And the US will need to assemble Abrams tanks first. According to foreign media, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will receive them no earlier than the end of 2023 or as early as 2024.

The United States is preparing a new package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 2.2 billion, which for the first time can include long-range missiles.

The head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko, said that more than 180 foreign-made aircraft are being transferred to Russian jurisdiction. According to the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, all these aircraft serviced by Russian airlines were removed from registration in Bermuda and Ireland. The reason for this, he called Western sanctions against the Russian aviation industry.

According to Prime Minister Jonas-Gar Stere, the specific contents of the package and its cost will be made public in early February

The Norwegian authorities will send a "package of long-term assistance" to Ukraine and the countries affected by the consequences of the Ukrainian crisis. This was announced by the Prime Minister of the kingdom Jonas-Gar Stere in an interview with Agence France-Presse published on Wednesday.

Iltalehti: Finland was given a decisive role in the war with Russia

The Baltic Sea can almost already be considered an internal sea of NATO, writes the author of the article in Iltalehti. As proof, he gives details of the exercises that took place using Swedish submarines off the Finnish peninsula of Hanko. The Americans, in turn, worked out the transfer of armored vehicles there and the landing of troops.

The Polish authorities decided to transfer to Ukraine a batch of Soviet-made T-72 tanks and Polish PT-91 Twardy tanks. This was stated by the President of Poland Andrzej Duda, speaking to reporters during a visit to Lithuania.

European governments have stopped paying attention to their voters in favor of the United States

The anti-war demonstration held in Nuremberg, Germany, marked a new stage of discontent and fatigue of Europeans from the crisis in Ukraine.

Kiev's Western allies are seriously concerned about the buildup of the Russian army in Ukraine, which is a clear sign of a large-scale offensive of the Russian Armed Forces soon. In an effort to somehow help the Armed Forces at least to hold the existing defense lines, NATO countries are increasing the supply of weapons, removing more and more restrictions on their type. At the same time, European allies are in a hurry to help the Ukrainian command to cover the shortage of military personnel, who are increasingly out of action, especially in the battles on the Donetsk sector of the front.

A detailed map of the supplies of two weapons systems that changed the course of the conflict in Ukraine shows a complex network of companies experiencing an increasingly significant burden as [American - approx. bmpd] industry is returning to the rails of wartime, the authors of the Financial Times newspaper write in an article titled "How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defense industry."

Norway, following Sweden, can transfer CV90 infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, this issue is under consideration by the government of the country. As stated in Oslo, Norway is constantly consulting with Kiev on possible arms supplies.

There are practically no anti-aircraft missile systems with the potential of non-strategic missile defense in the APU

At the end of January, the representative of the Ukrainian Air Forces, Yuriy Ignat, said that the AFU does not have the means to counter Iranian ballistic missiles. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok - about how the opinion of the Ukrainian military corresponds to reality.