Any country can take “sovereign decision” to hand warplanes to Ukraine - Kirby

The U.S. administration believes any country, including any NATO ally, is entitled to make a national decision on whether to supply its fighter jets to Ukraine.

That’s according to the National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby, who spoke at a briefing on February 10, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“These are all sovereign decisions.  And if a NATO nation or even a non-NATO nation wants to provide capabilities like fighter aircraft to Ukraine, that’s certainly their decision to make,” Kirby told journalists, commenting on UK’s statements of readiness to provide training for Ukrainian pilots on NATO-standard fighter jets.

If the Ukrainians are going to introduce a system into a military that they have no experience with, there needs to be “some training that goes along with that,” assumed Kirby.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, the White House assessed on Friday that Russia would be prepared for a new offensive as early as this spring.