The French president underlined "criteria" before any decision: a "request formulated" by Ukraine, that it "not be escalatory" and "not likely to touch Russian soil but to help the resistance effort " and that "it does not come to weaken the capacity of the French army".
"By definition, nothing is excluded," he said, while emphasizing that Ukrainians "are not making this demand today."
However, "it is in the light of these three criteria that we will continue to look on a case-by-case basis" the deliveries of military equipment, he added after having posed the same criteria for the possible sending of tanks Leclerc.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte stressed for his part that there was "no taboo but that it would be a big step" if fighter planes were delivered to kyiv.
The Netherlands has not yet received a request from kyiv to this effect either, he said, approving the criteria set out by his French counterpart.
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