“Today we are convinced that Russia will lose this war,” Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday, August 21 in Copenhagen, in front of the crowd gathered near Parliament. The Ukrainian President has obtained from Denmark and the Netherlands the upcoming delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. These will be delivered to kyiv gradually: six towards the end of the year, eight next year and five the following year, according to the Danish Prime Minister.
“The main thing is what we prove with our victory, our cooperation,” continued the Ukrainian President. “Together we prove that life has value, that people matter. “Freedom is important, Europe is important,” he said again.
The day before, Volodymyr Zelensky praised the “historic” decision of the Netherlands and Denmark to deliver to his country a total of 61 American-made F-16 fighter jets. He traveled to these two countries on Sunday to examine the devices that kyiv has been asking for tirelessly since the beginning of the Russian invasion to fight the forces of Moscow, which are far superior at this stage.
On Monday, the Russian ambassador to Denmark denounced “an escalation of the conflict”. “By entrenching itself behind the idea that Ukraine must determine the terms of peace itself, Denmark seeks, through deeds and words, to leave Ukraine no choice but to continue the confrontation. military with Russia,” said Ambassador Vladimir Barbin. According to him, this decision “pushes Ukraine into the abyss and condemns its people to new victims”.
In July, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned against the delivery of F-16s, saying they will be considered by Moscow as a “nuclear” threat.
