The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, confirmed this Friday that the Ukrainian and Norwegian authorities are in talks to promote a military training program for Ukrainian fighter pilots in Norway.
“In general, we have achieved extremely strong relations with Norway in many areas. This also applies to weapons: thanks to Norway, we have strengthened our air defense, artillery and other types of troops,” Zelensky said.
The Ukrainian president met this Friday with the Norwegian Defense Minister, Bjorn Arild Gram, with whom he discussed Oslo’s latest promises to reinforce Ukrainian defensive capabilities in the framework of an active war for more than a year.
In fact, Zelenski has valued Norway’s project to promote a long-term budget support program under which it is expected to raise more than 6,500 million euros for the next five years, an initiative that, he considers, should serve as a example for the rest of the partners.
Since the outbreak of the war, Ukraine’s allied powers have supported Kiev not only in financial and weapons matters, but also by training its troops in Western combat techniques, in the use of tanks and, now, in the use of airplanes
As highlighted this week by the spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuti Ignat, the country’s authorities have drawn up a list of the best pilots in the country who are destined, at any time, to travel abroad to receive training.
