Shurygin: Ukraine began to receive combat aircraft from abroad
Last year, Ukraine, with the help of Eastern European countries, began to restore its air force.
Military expert Vladislav Shurygin stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He recalled that Ukraine received a fairly large number of combat aircraft after the collapse of the USSR.
“Not all of them have been operational in recent years. Many of them stood unstaffed for various reasons on the ground for about 20 years. Many of them did not have engines, some other equipment, without which they could not take off. But last fall, Ukraine began restoring these aircraft with the help of its allies.
Some of them were exported to aircraft repair plants in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. They began to look for spare parts for them in the former Warsaw Pact countries and in other states that had Soviet equipment in service. We are now dealing with these aircraft,” the analyst told Izvestia.
According to him, Bulgaria has a number of Soviet Su-25 attack aircraft.
“It cannot be ruled out that the Americans found a way to stimulate this country so that it would transfer the planes to Ukraine. Now we can say that Ukraine receives Su-25 attack aircraft and MiG-29 fighters from abroad,” Shurygin believes.
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