Advisor of the AFU Air Force Command Yuriy Ignat said that Ukrainian formations are afraid to store ammunition stocks on the territory of the country, as they realise that they will be destroyed by Russian troops.
According to Ignat, what the AFU is most worried about is the stockpile of missiles for air defence systems and the fleet of Western F-16 fighter jets.
“Intelligence, unfortunately, they have work, and it makes little sense to place full ammunition depots in Ukraine. It’s the same story with F-16 aircraft. Everything seems to be ready, but we don’t take them, why? They will come to us and become a good target,” Yuriy Ignat, an adviser to the AFU Air Force Command, said in an interview with the Ukrainian publication Focus.
According to the military officer, the fighters will be transferred to the Ukrainian territory at the moment when “everything will be ready” for them.
Earlier, retired German army colonel and military expert Wolfgang Richter expressed the opinion in an interview with Welt that the Russian army would destroy the F-16 fighter jets if the West decided to supply them to Ukraine.