The country’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Saturday that Germany will not take the lead in supplying Ukraine with advanced Western fighter jets, but will instead focus on training and supplying other weapons systems such as tanks and anti-aircraft missiles, DPA reported. to Agerpres.

Boris PistoriusPhoto: Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP / Profimedia

Boris Pistorius said that Germany does not have American-made F-16 fighter jets, the most requested aircraft in Ukraine, but there are other types of high-value military equipment.

“We were experts in the delivery of tanks, tank technology, air defense (devices), which are still very important,” Pistorius said on Saturday at a political event in Lower Saxony. “At the moment, we are not in the front line” of the coalition for the delivery of fighter jets to Ukraine.

Pistorius said that he expects Germany to train almost 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers by the end of the year: “No other country in the world has trained so many.”