Top US military officials have said the aircraft transfer could take years to complete Ukraine should not expect to receive American F-16 fighter jets until sometime in 2024, a Ukrainian Air Force spokesman has said, noting that Kiev’s “high hopes” for the system were unlikely to be met anytime soon.

The West is pursuing an essentially colonialist policy based on “hypocrisy and lies,” the Russian president has said at this year’s Victory Day parade Russia firmly opposes the West’s “colonial policies” aimed at elevating a few nations by restraining the development of other sovereign states, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in his address at…

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