French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the start of the training of pilots and mechanics for Mirage fighter jets, which Paris promises to provide to Kiev. He announced this at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris.
The Mirage 2000 is a fourth-generation multirole single-engine fighter. Macron refused to specify the exact number of planes.
“We have agreed on the needs, now the priority is the training of pilots and mechanics, after which we will specify how many planes France can transfer,” he explained.
According to Macron, it is planned to train 4,500 Ukrainian soldiers.