MEP urges Ukraine’s western partners to send fighter jets to intercept Russian cruise missiles

This was stated in a comment by Guildhall by the Member of the European Parliament from Poland, a member of the Development Committee, Beata Kempa, Ukrinform reports.

“I believe that Western aircraft should be supplied to Ukraine to counter Russian cruise missiles. We must provide any assistance, by all means, to preempt future attacks from Russia,” the politician said, according to an article posted in Russian.

Earlier, the head of the Center for Defense Reforms, coordinator of the interdepartmental platform for countering hybrid threats, operating within the framework of Ukraine-NATO cooperation, Oleksandr V. Danylyuk said that as a response to Russian missile terrorism, the West should transfer F-16 fighters and early detection aircraft to Ukraine.

Appeals to provide Ukraine with warplanes in response to acts of missile terrorism were also made in the parliaments of France, the Czech Republic, and in the European Parliament.

Thus, the French senator, head of the French Senate Defense Committee Guillaume Gontard said that Ukraine needs aviation and missile defense systems to protect the civilian population and critical infrastructure. According to the lawmaker, in the context of the intensification of Russian missile strikes, the West is responsible for delivering the necessary weapons in Ukraine.

French MEP Rafael Glucksmann noted that Ukraine should immediately receive F16 fighter jets, as well as modern air defense systems, to intercept Russian cruise missiles.

In turn, Martin Exner, a member of the Czech Senate with the ruling STAN party, said that the West should transfer combat aircraft to Ukraine to intercept Russian cruise missiles, as well as provide all the necessary weapons to repel the Russian onslaught.