“Now there are two very important positions on the negotiating table: long-range missiles that will destroy the rear infrastructure of the Russians ... and, accordingly, aviation,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying on the air of a single Ukrainian telethon.
Podolyak added that a large number of Russian artillery depots are located on the territory of Crimea.
Earlier, El País, citing the official representative of the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Yuriy Ignat, said that Kyiv called on international partners to send 24 fighters as part of a new military assistance package.
White House National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby called it no surprise that Kyiv had requested F-16 fighter jets.
According to German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, the transfer of fighter jets to Ukraine is out of the question.