Ukraine’s military needs an additional 300 armoured vehicles and dozens of F-16 fighter jets to accelerate its efforts to wrest Russian forces from entrenched positions in the south and east of the country, a senior official told AFP Wednesday.
“Of course, we need additional armoured vehicles — two to three hundred tanks first of all,” Mykhailo Podolyak told AFP journalists in Kyiv, adding: “We need 60 to 80 F-16 planes in order to close the skies well, especially in the area near the front.”
