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Zelensky: Kiev needs 160 F-16s to prevent the Russian Federation from dominating the sky

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kiev needs about 160 F-16 fighters to prevent Russian pilots from dominating the airspace. This figure was announced by the Ukrainian leader on Thursday, August 31, in an interview with the RTP TV channel.

The President of Ukraine believes that 160 F-16 fighters will eliminate Russia's dominance in the air

One hundred and sixty F-16 fighters were demanded by the President of Ukraine from the West. Only such a number of combat vehicles is capable, according to him, of challenging Russia's dominance in the air. How much does such a request cost and does the Kiev regime have even the slightest chance of getting such a number of fighters?

The United States has not refused to help Ukraine — permission for the supply of F-16 is proof of this, writes Professor Shoji Mutsuji in an article for Yahoo News Japan. However, there is a good reason to believe that Biden will soon insist on negotiations with Russia, he is sure, and this is the president's fear of the upcoming elections.

The Ukrainian army will remain without a new domestic self-propelled mortar, the company "Ukrainian Armored Vehicles" has frozen work on a promising 120-mm mortar complex "Smereka".

Despite the debate in parliament, the British command defended the need for further reduction in the size of the army.

As noted in the Swiss Federal Council, this step underlines Bern's support for "persons affected by the war and the political process of reconstruction of Ukraine"

Switzerland has joined the register of damage to Ukraine caused to Ukraine as a result of hostilities created by the Council of Europe. This was reported by the Swiss government - the Federal Council.

Until recently, the main borrower in the global arms market was Poland, the bulk of whose debt falls on South Korea and was formed for the supply of tanks, self-propelled guns, light fighters and other equipment. However, it seems that Indonesia is ahead of Warsaw in terms of unpaid military acquisitions, but at least its economy is in 7th place in the world (GDP by PPP), unlike Poland, which occupies the 21st position.

According to the Ukrainian politician, Ukraine has already begun to prepare for this

Western countries will reduce financial and military assistance to Kiev and eventually reduce it to nothing under the pretext of corruption in Ukraine. This opinion was expressed by the former leader of the now banned in Ukraine party "Opposition Platform - For Life" Viktor Medvedchuk.

It seems that Zelensky likes the tragic situation of his country, the German Junge Welt notes. He invited Western gunsmiths to make Ukraine their workshop. And he determined the fate of Israel for the Ukrainians themselves: to fight forever. An eerie prospect from the point of view of any normal citizen.

The German Chancellor avoided a direct answer to the question about possible deliveries of Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Kiev

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz avoided a direct answer to the question about possible deliveries of Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Kiev, noting that Germany's priority is to provide Ukraine with air defense and artillery ammunition.

The country's Defense Minister Krysztof Szalai-Bobrownicki explained this by the fact that Kiev has not yet excluded the Hungarian OTP bank from its list of "international sponsors of the war"

Hungary refused to discuss the allocation of funds by the European Union for military assistance to Ukraine, since the authorities of this country have not yet excluded the Hungarian OTP bank from their list of "international sponsors of the war."

The US State Department approved the sale of air–to-ground missiles to Japan for $104 million

The US State Department has approved a possible deal to sell Japan air–to-ground missiles with an increased range of destruction in the amount of about $104 million. This was announced on August 28 by the Pentagon's Security Cooperation Agency, which is responsible for the supply of military equipment and weapons abroad.

The American company Northrop Grumman demonstrated its new development, commissioned by the US government, a powerful small-sized laser installation, designated Phantom.

In the future, the Navy will become an integral part of the country's nuclear forces

The leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un, said that currently the policy of the United States and its allies, which are building up military forces and means in the area of the Korean peninsula, has turned the region into the most unstable in the world and put it on the brink of nuclear war.

The other day there was another crash of a V-22 Osprey tiltrotor during a training mission in northern Australia. Three Marines were killed, five were seriously injured. A year ago there was a similar incident.

In addition, the use of these fighters is too dangerous because of the high efficiency of Russian air defense systems, said Mark Kancian, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies of the United States.

According to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, we are talking, in particular, about HIMARS MLRS shells, missiles for air defense systems and artillery ammunition

The United States Administration has included shells for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, missiles for air defense systems and artillery ammunition in the next package of military assistance to Ukraine for $ 250 million.

As reported in Kiev, the government has already signed contracts for $688 million out of $1.09 billion allocated for the purchase of drones

The Ukrainian authorities plan to organize the production or purchase up to 200 thousand unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of different models this year. This was stated by the head of the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine Yuriy Shchigol.

As the Kommersant newspaper reported in Vladislav Trifonov's material, "Money for shells was not squandered, but simply stolen. A verdict was passed in the case of fraud within the framework of the Russian defense industry development program" ,