UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said today that supplying fighter jets to Ukraine is a “medium term” option and will not be a reality for the next six months.

“It’s still going to be a long time before someone delivers fighter jets to Ukraine, let’s be honest,” said Wallace, who is attending the Security Conference in Munich (southern Germany) today. ), in an interview with the German weekly “Der Spiegel”. . “.

He added that among Kiev’s Western allies there is a consensus that modern models such as “Eurofighters” will only be supplied after the end of the war.

However, he defended that the UK start training Ukrainian fighter pilots, first, with flight simulators, so that everything is ready once the decision is made.

“Unlike tanks, with fighter-bombers there will be no delay once there is a political decision,” he said.

Concerning the problems related to the sending of tanks, Wallace considered that “the policy pushed the army forward” since in many countries the governments realized that the battle tanks available to their armies were not in good condition to be sent to Ukraine immediately.

“The war in Ukraine, however bitter, showed us the reality that our defense plans were not enough,” he said.

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