British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, while visiting the training ground where the multinational training mission of Ukrainian military personnel continues, together with Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles, said that Ukraine currently needs to strengthen its ground forces. The Guardian reports.

Commenting on the issue of providing Ukraine with modern combat aircraft, he said that "

" It's common reality. We are responding to the needs of the Ukrainians at that time, based on what the Ukrainians tell us, what we see in intelligence, on our knowledge of the Russians on the battlefield,” Wallace said..

He did not rule out the possibility of sending planes in the future, but noted that the fighters "

At the same time, he said that Ukraine now needs to strengthen its ground forces..

“What Ukrainians need is the ability to form military formations on the ground to use the maneuver of the combined forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to reject the Russians. This is how you defeat live attacks, which the Russians are now forced to resort to. they resort to World War I-type attacks with corresponding casualties,” added the head of the British Ministry of Defense.

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Recall that earlier British Defense Secretary Bel Wallace said that the Challenger-2 tanks, which his country undertook to provide Ukraine, would arrive on the battlefield around the start of summer..