 F-16 can change course of war in Ukraine. Western F-16 fighters can change the course of events at the contact line because air cover is the key to the success of ground operations as the air forces of the armed forces of Ukraine are convinced. Yuri Inat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said this, we already have a decision on training pilots and providing Western aircraft to Ukraine and we are waiting for its implementation. I said that we would win the war with the F-16s. We won't win right away, of course, but the F-16s can change the course of events. They can provide us with what we need most today, air superiority in the occupied territories, he added. Inat noted that, for example, there are about eight to nine Russian fighters in the occupied territories launching guided aerial bombs and aviation missiles in these seconds. Inat says with the F-16s they will be unable to do this. Air superiority is the key to success on the ground. We will need to understand that, he stressed. Inat added that Ukraine plans to receive not only American F-16s but also other Western fighters including the Swedish Saab JAS-39 Grippen. They will gradually replace old Soviet equipment. Three months after US President Joe Biden's decision to allow NATO allies to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine would receive 42 aircraft the first set to arrive by the end of 2023.