The United Kingdom's Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky News on Friday that London will not be delivering British-made Typhoon fighter jets to Ukraine in short term.
"Gifting a fighter jet comes with hundreds of people: engineers, pilots, training, electronic warfare. The more complicated the platform, the greater the tail. The west is not going to be putting troops into Ukraine in those scales. ... [W]e would have to send 200 RAF [Royal Air Force] people and we're not going to do that … at this current stage," he explained.
Meanwhile, speaking to Times Radio, Wallace said that a way to help Ukraine is to have the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is to provide it with Soviet MiG 29s or Su-24s jets if the member states "wish to donate" as those are "already configured to fight in a NATO way, where of course Ukraine isn't."
