(7 Jun 2024)
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Paris – 7 June 2024
1. Wide of French and Ukrainian Presidents, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelenskyy respectively, at lecterns for news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:
“Today we signed agreements on this (defense cooperation). And more agreements will be signed. And among other things, we agreed on opening, as you already said, an office in Ukraine, an office of KNDS, a French company, together with which we will produce ammunition for 155-caliber artillery in Ukraine.”
3. Wide of news conference underway
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:
“We went through in detail today the possibility of France strengthening our combat aviation, we have made a positive decision regarding the training of pilots and engineers as well as the acquisition of French aircraft. Thank you for this decision.”
5. Wide of Macron and Zelenskyy shaking hands and embracing
STORYLINE:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday thanked his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron for his decision to provide Ukraine with its Mirage jet fighter.
During a press conference with Macron at the Elysee Palace, Zelenskyy said there had been a "positive decision regarding the training of pilots and engineers as well as the acquisition of French aircraft."
The French president said the training of pilots and mechanics would start immediately but declined to give detail the number of combat aircrafts.
Earlier Macron told a French public broadcaster that the sale of French-made combat aircraft, the Mirage 2005 would “allow Ukraine to protect its soil, its airspace” against Russian attacks.
The Netherlands and Denmark promised last year to give F-16 warplanes to Ukraine and the United States is training Ukrainian pilots at a base in Arizona.
Zelenskyy and his wife attended the 80th anniversary events in Normandy with President Joe Biden and European leaders who have supported Kyiv’s efforts in the war, now in its third year.
Although the promise of French aircraft will be welcome in Kyiv, Ukraine is currently fighting to hold back a recent Russian push in eastern areas, including the border regions of Kharkiv and Donetsk, that seeks to exploit Kyiv’s shortages of ammunition and troops along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line.
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