Washington supports joint allied training programs for Ukrainian pilots on F-16s warplanes.
Brussels:
Training Ukrainian pilots in flying US-built F-16 fighter jets does not make NATO a party to the conflict, the alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday.
"Ukraine has the right of self-defence...We help Ukraine to uphold that right," he told reporters. "That doesn't make NATO and NATO allies a party to the conflict."
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