Thank you.
Canada and 11 other countries are the members of, as we call it, the fighter jets coalition, which is the coordination group working together on helping us with our needs in terms of building our capability in the air. As you see, since February 24, 2022, Ukraine does not have superiority in the air. For our ground forces to quickly move further to liberate territories, as many other NATO countries would do according to military tactics, they need support from the air. The transfer to Ukraine of the F-16 fighter jets will be important to secure air superiority or air control and air support for the ground troops.
Of course, it requires training the top pilots, which is going on. I think I'm not able to share publicly many of the details, but as the Canadian ministry of defence, as a general staff that's a member of this capability, a member of the fighter jets coalition, there are discussions between all of the members of the coalition on what could be supported—of course, the training and many other things including the fighter jet itself. We know that we have political signals from our partners that they are ready to provide us and transfer F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as soon as our pilots and infrastructure are ready.
We are making a lot of effort to make it quicker.