On the other hand there’s always a chance Russia could detain him as a foreign agent.

Then Putin to the officer who detained him is like "Fool! That's our foreign agent!"

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I think it would have fallen eventually but Republicans no doubt speeding it up.

KYIV — After weeks of rumors, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested he is planning to reset the government and military leadership of Ukraine.

“If we want to win, we must all push in the same direction, convinced of victory — we cannot be discouraged, let ourselves down — we must have the right positive energy,” Zelenskyy told Italian website RaiNews on Sunday, in response to multiple reports he is planning to dismiss his top general, Valery Zaluzhny. “I have something serious in mind, which is not about a single person but about the direction of the country’s leadership,” he continued.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine needs a change of leadership, and “not just in a single sector such as the military” — suggesting a reshuffle of top officials in government may be imminent. “So, you can’t say we would replace a single person,” Zelenskyy added.

An ongoing rift between Zelenskyy and Zaluzhny has seen both leaders differ in their public descriptions of the future of Russia’s war against Ukraine.  

An essay by Zaluzhny for the Economist offered cold realism regarding the war, in contrast to the optimism that permeates official messaging from Kyiv. The general made it clear that Russia is far from beaten, and warned: “A positional war is a prolonged one that carries enormous risks to Ukraine’s armed forces and to its state.”

People close to Zelenskyy, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, told POLITICO that Zaluzhny’s essay left the president scrambling to reassure partners the war is not a dead end, and that it’s still worth helping Ukraine. Zelenskyy now wants his army to come up with a strategy that will encourage allies to keep the aid flowing.

In another column, Zaluzhny said Ukraine must rethink its war strategy and learn how to fight with limited resources as military stocks provided by allies become exhausted.

A recent poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that more than 70 percent of Ukrainians would react negatively if Zelenskyy did fire the general.

With Ukrainian general Zaluzhny in peril, Zelenskyy plans major reset – POLITICO

The 6 aircraft will now be added to the 18 F-16s that are being prepared for delivery to Ukraine. The remaining 18 aircraft are destined for an F-16 training center in Romania.

The Netherlands withdraws F-16s from sale | News item | Defensie.nl

Erdogan's a clown, Lol. Can't stop trying to play both sides.

Ukraine doesn't need a deal with Putin anymore when Russia's fleet is in shambles.

What impact do you reckon all of these f-16s will make? Will Russia still have air superiority?

Neither side has air superiority really, aside from behind their respective frontlines, F-16's won't change much there.

They won't be a wonder weapon, rather they'll be another good weapon to add to their overall strength.

F'16s are better than what Ukraine currently employs in practically every way, better radars, better anti-jamming, they can intercept missiles from further away which will improve Ukraine's air defences and relieve pressure on ground based air defence, they will be able to detect Russian aircraft at further distances than the current Ukraine jets, Russian jets right now can see Ukrainian jets first and Ukraine could perform missions further away from Russia's frontline air-defence.

Also, F-16's can be more easily integrated with other sophisticated weapon systems that the West has, things easily compatible with the F-16 that, from offensive weaponry to defensive weaponry, right now that's complicated with the current Ukrainian jets, basically have to jerry-rig the Storm Shadows and SCALPs to them.

But Russia is full of anti-air defences, S-400's will still be able to target F-16s and Ukraine will still likely have to operate from time to time at low altitudes because of that which present problems of its own. There's just too much anti-air defence on both sides right now for any major changes in the skies. But F-16s for the long term is good value, it's just an all round better aircraft than what Ukraine currently uses and can easily integrate with other modern Western technology.