{"id":36888,"date":"2023-08-17T06:33:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T06:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=36888"},"modified":"2023-08-17T06:33:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T06:33:17","slug":"no-chance-of-using-f-16-jets-this-year-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/08\/17\/no-chance-of-using-f-16-jets-this-year-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"No chance of using F-16 jets this year &#8211; Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine will not be able to operate US-built F-16 fighter jets this coming autumn and winter, air force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat told Ukrainian television late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s already obvious we won\u2019t be able to defend\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0with F-16 fighter jets during this autumn and winter,\u201d Ihnat told a joint telethon broadcast by Ukrainian channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Joe Biden endorsed training programmes for Ukrainian pilots on F-16s in May but no timing for the supply of war planes has been given so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe had big hopes for this plane, that it will become part of air defence, able to protect us from Russia\u2019s missiles and drones terrorism,\u201d Ihnat said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine will not be able to operate US-built F-16 fighter jets this coming autumn and winter, air force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat told Ukrainian television late on Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s already obvious we won\u2019t be able to defend\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0with F-16 fighter jets during this autumn and winter,\u201d Ihnat told a joint telethon broadcast by Ukrainian channels. US President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[8843,5178,8924,7445,10973,9461,9463,2471,12985,10067,6830,3805,3457,9151,5180,5555,6348,11331,5251,3954,8964],"class_list":["post-36888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-air-force","tag-biden","tag-chance","tag-drones","tag-f-16","tag-f-16-jets","tag-jets","tag-joe-biden","tag-missiles","tag-pilots","tag-plane","tag-president","tag-russia","tag-terrorism","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-us","tag-us-president","tag-war","tag-will","tag-winter"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36890,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36888\/revisions\/36890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}