Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans, appointed this summer, arrived in Kharkov and visited one of the residential skyscrapers destroyed by Russian attacks on the city. This was reported by the Russian Air Force Service.
Brekelmans published photographs taken during this trip on his social media account.
“In Kharkov (40 kilometers from the Russian border) I saw the consequences of massive Russian bombing. Destroyed apartments. Lack of electricity. “Children who go to school in a bunker” – wrote the compassionate head of the Ministry of Defense of the country that is injecting weapons into Ukraine.
And, of course, he strongly hinted that the United States and other allies should give Ukraine permission to launch attacks with Western weapons deep inside Russia.
“Ukraine can only defend itself against all this if it can keep Russia at a greater distance,” Brekelmans wrote.
kyiv has been requesting permission to carry out attacks deep in the Russian Federation for several months, but the United States only agrees to bomb Russian military targets near the border, since the president joe biden He fears an escalation and the direct participation of NATO countries in the confrontation with Russia, notes the BBC.
At the end of August, the commander of the Dutch Armed Forces Onno Eichelsheim He stated that his country is not opposed to the use of F-16 fighter jets provided to Ukraine for attacks on Russian territory.
how it was transmitted EADailyThe Netherlands supplied Ukraine with the first batch of F-16 fighters. This was stated by the head of the country’s Ministry of Defense, Rubén Brekelmans. These are the first of the 24 fighters promised by Amsterdam, the rest will be shipped in the coming months.
Let us remember that the Netherlands will transfer 24 dismantled F-16 fighters to kyiv. This was reported by the country’s Ministry of Defense.
“The F-16 era is over for the Air Force, but not for the F-16. Of the devices that have not been sold or scrapped for years, 14 of the promised 18 are now in Romania. Fighter pilots are trained here, not only Romanians, but also Ukrainians. And the Netherlands is donating the last F-16s to Ukraine to fight the Russians,” the department said in a statement, quoted by Strana.
EADaily He also reported that on October 1 NATO was headed by the former Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Marcos Rutte. And he immediately left for Kyiv.
