2023-05-21 20:27:00
The relationship with China and the Ukraine war dominated the three-day G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, to which Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyj surprisingly traveled until Sunday.
At the end of the meeting, US President Joe Biden promised his Ukrainian counterpart new military aid in the amount of approximately 375 million US dollars (approximately 337 million Swiss francs). The package includes ammunition, artillery and armored vehicles. The total value of US military assistance since the war began on February 24, 2022 is now well over $30 billion.
Ukraine should quickly receive many jets
After the US government gave in on the fighter jet debate, Ukraine is now counting on dozens of machines from the West to defend once morest Russia’s war of aggression. «The planes will not passed piecemeal, but in units. An air unit is at least one squadron, in our case there are currently more than 12 aircraft, with our western partners up to 18 aircraft,” said Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ihnat on Ukrainian television on Sunday. In this way, Ukraine might be handed over “initially several dozen fighter jets to solve upcoming tasks”.
One of the most important announcements at the G7 summit is Joe Biden’s announcement that Ukrainian pilots will be trained on F-16 fighter jets.
AFP
US President Joe Biden had previously given in to months of pressure and in principle cleared the way for the delivery of American fighter jets to Ukraine. At first, the United States refused. Now supports that Land the training of Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 machines. In addition, it should be decided together with other partners who will deliver how many aircraft and when. However, there are no concrete figures yet.
Kremlin complains regarding “anti-Russian and anti-Chinese passages”
Russia has criticized the resolutions of the summit: Its most important result is a “collection of declarations filled with passages of an anti-Russian and anti-Chinese character,” said the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Sunday. The decisions of the group of seven (USA, Great Britain, France, Canada, Italy, Japan and Germany) were aimed at deepening the dividing lines in international politics.
The focus of the summit was almost exclusively on the ongoing war.
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