PARIS, June 7 ------ The United States encourages China to attend a planned summit on Ukraine this month in Switzerland, a U.S. State Department spokesperson told reporters.
Macron said that on Friday, on the occasion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to France as part of D-Day anniversary celebrations, his government would announce it will provide the warplanes to Ukraine. He did not specify how many Mirages France would provide, by when or under what financial terms. Macron said France has proposed Ukrainian pilots be trained in France from this summer. He also said France had proposed to train 4,500 Ukraine soldiers. He did not say where the soldiers would be trained, but he said that at the moment there are no French military trainers on Ukrainian soil. The Mirage 2000 is a multi-role, single-engine jet fighter.
Zelensky said in September he had struck an agreement on training Ukraine pilots in France in conversation with Macron. The head of the Ukrainian Air Force said in January that French Mirage aircraft may reinforce the Ukrainian air force.
Source: reuters.com
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