{"id":42884,"date":"2025-02-06T14:29:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/first-french-mirage-fighter-jets-arrive-in-ukraine\/06\/02\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:29:43","slug":"first-french-mirage-fighter-jets-arrive-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/first-french-mirage-fighter-jets-arrive-in-ukraine\/06\/02\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"First French Mirage fighter jets arrive in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukraine has received the first Mirage fighter jets from France, French Defence Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Mirages were handed over along with Ukrainian pilots who had been trained on the jets in France, Lecornu posted on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Defence Ministry did not disclose exactly how many aircraft were delivered and how many fighter aircraft France intends to provide in total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">French media reported, with reference to a budget report by the National Assembly from the autumn, that France plans to give Ukraine six of the 26 Mirage 2000-5s that the French air force has.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov confirmed the arrival of both French fighter jets and US-built F-16s from the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;These modern fighting machines are already in Ukraine and will soon be used in combat missions,&#8221; he wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Umerov did not provide any information on the number of jets that had arrived.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/first-french-mirage-fighter-jets-172411309.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has received the first Mirage fighter jets from France, French Defence Minister S&eacute;bastien Lecornu said on Thursday. The Mirages were handed<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/first-french-mirage-fighter-jets-arrive-in-ukraine\/06\/02\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}