{"id":134329,"date":"2025-05-26T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134329\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T22:18:08","slug":"netherlands-has-sent-last-batch-of-f-16-fighter-jets-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134329\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands has sent last batch of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Defence of the Netherlands has announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/05\/25\/7513969\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delivery<\/a> of the last batch of 24 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>European Pravda; a statement on the website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensie.nl\/actueel\/nieuws\/2025\/05\/26\/laatste-f-16s-voor-oekraine-uit-nederland-vertrokken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dutch Ministry of Defence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details: <\/strong>The last Dutch F-16s bound for Ukraine left Volkel air base in the south of the country on Monday for Belgium, where they will be prepared for delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ruben Brekelmans, the Dutch Defence Ministry, was present during the departure of the F-16s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;F-16s are of vital importance for Ukraine due to the daily Russian air attacks. They allow us to keep Russian aggression at bay and away from us,&#8221; Ruben Brekelmans commented.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch Ministry of Defence emphasises that the transfer of F-16s does not mean the end of the country&#8217;s participation in the fighter jet coalition, which it leads together with Denmark and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The country, among other things, helps maintain fighter jets&#8217; combat readiness and organises pilot training at the European F-16 Training Centre (EFTC) in Romania.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Ukraine received its first batch of Dutch F-16s in October 2024, followed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/02\/6\/7497065\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second delivery in February 2025<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">President Volodymyr Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/03\/20\/7503708\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that another batch had been received from the Netherlands in March, marking continued support from the Dutch government.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Defence of the Netherlands has announced the delivery of the last batch of 24 F-16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,12165,1477,8621,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-134329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-fighter-jets","11":"tag-netherlands","12":"tag-russo-ukrainian-war","13":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114576457944978672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}