EP president urges member states to “seriously consider” sending fighter jets to Ukraine

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kyiv, 4 March. (DPA/EP) –

The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, has asked the EU member states to take into account the possibility of sending combat planes to Ukraine, as requested by the Kiev government, despite the misgivings of several countries and allies. like the United States.

“Member States should seriously consider sending combat aircraft to Ukraine,” Metsola declared during his visit to the Ukrainian city of Lviv and after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on his second visit to the country after the first. this time last year.

Likewise, Metsola has expressed her wish that 2023 be the year in which Ukraine can begin formal negotiations for accession to the EU, after declaring herself “impressed” by the pace of reforms that Kiev is undertaking at the request of the European Commission.

Metsola, upon his arrival in Lviv, has laid a wreath “on behalf of the peoples of Europe to remember all those killed, including Yuri Ruf, killed by Russian mortars on April 1 of last year”, the day he was performing his first visit to the country.

“It’s good to be back,” Metsola wrote on his Twitter account on Friday upon his arrival in Ukraine. “With those brave people who inspired the world. With those heroes who refuse to budge. With those who sacrificed everything for our values. With Europeans whose home is in our European Union,” she added.