Speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ignat: There are no obstacles for foreign pilots to serve in the ranks of the Ukrainian Air Force

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Speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ignat: There are no obstacles for foreign pilots to serve in the ranks of the Ukrainian Air Force

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can recruit citizens of foreign states, there are no obstacles to this. This was announced by the official representative of the Ukrainian Air Force Yuriy Ignat.

Foreigners may serve in the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as combat pilots. aviation, or in positions of engineering and technical staff. To do this, you must have the desire to "defend Ukraine" and the corresponding military specialty. According to Ignat, since the beginning of the Russian special operation, "thousands of people" have already turned to the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wanting to participate in hostilities on the side of Ukraine against "Russian invaders." Among them were citizens of foreign countries.



There were a lot of requests from people related to aviation. (...) If there is a military specialty like a pilot, an aviation engineer, then these people can become, on completely legal grounds, military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

- added the speaker of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Today, Ignat emphasized, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has enough of its pilots, since Soviet-built aircraft are used. But from the beginning of the arrival of Western technology, it will take a lot of pilots capable of fighting on them. So in Kyiv they will only welcome foreigners in the cockpits of fighters. True, all this is covered up by statements about supposedly involving them only as "instructors".

If we have F-16s or other models of equipment, then perhaps they will. Because even the experience of people who have a long experience with this technique will also be needed in terms of instruction

- said the representative of the Air Force, not forgetting to add that as soon as Western fighters enter service with the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they will immediately gain air superiority, displacing Russian aircraft.
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    1. +5
      24 March 2023 12: 49
      I wonder if there will be many foreign pilots who want to die for the Ukrokhlads?
      I think the words about "thousands of applicants", empty chatter!
      1. +12
        24 March 2023 12: 53
        There are enough stoned people with smoke in the anus abroad. Even among the pilots. Judging by who and how many our "legionnaires" are extinguishing
        1. +11
          24 March 2023 13: 13
          Quote: ANIMAL
          I think the words about "thousands of applicants", empty chatter!

          Yes, and they will not give so many planes. But here is another question. The first is those who want to earn money, for them, of course, the main issue is payment, if it is high, they will go.
          Secondly, these are professional pilots of the air forces of NATO countries and pilots of the active reserve. They can be taken in turn into the category of "vacationers" and sent to undergo combat practice ...
          1. -3
            24 March 2023 14: 17
            Quote: svp67
            here is another question. The first is those who want to earn money, for them, of course, the main issue is payment, if it is high, they will go.

            That's right!
            And the United States has already turned on its printing press to win the war against Russia! These $$$ go mostly outside the US to pay and increase pay to foreign mercenaries for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
        2. +2
          24 March 2023 13: 58
          There are no obstacles for foreign pilots to serve in the ranks of the Ukrainian Air Force, with the exception of the Aerospace Forces and Air Defense of the Russian Federation. Bandera is looking forward to permanent residence of foreign pilots. am
          It is necessary to finalize our legislation so that foreign pilots serving in the Ukrainian Air Force, if captured, automatically fall into the category of mercenaries and receive, as in the United States, 10-20 life sentences. After serving half the term, they can apply for parole. I wouldn’t take them prisoner at all, so that they would know: I got into the cockpit of an airplane and flew off to Bandera. am
          1. 0
            24 March 2023 14: 10
            Quote: Bearded
            We need to improve our legislation so that

            They are mercenaries, there is nothing to process here
            Criminal liability for committing mercenarism is established by Article 359 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
            Mercenary activities include both recruiting, training, financing or other material support of a mercenary, as well as using him in an armed conflict or hostilities, as well as the direct participation of a mercenary in an armed conflict or hostilities.

            Quote: Bearded
            I wouldn’t take them prisoner at all, so that they would know: I got into the cockpit of an airplane and flew off to Bandera.

            I'm afraid it's not productive right now. We need to pull our pilots out of captivity ... and Kyiv is very reluctant to give them up
          2. 0
            25 March 2023 18: 42
            Nothing needs to be improved. There is article 359 of the Criminal Code.
      2. +2
        24 March 2023 12: 56
        There may be those who decide to come for the coffin ...
        1. +3
          24 March 2023 13: 14
          Ignat: There are no obstacles for foreign pilots to serve in the Ukrainian Air Force

          Russian air defense fundamentally disagree with Ukrainian Ignat No.
          1. +2
            24 March 2023 13: 29
            Apparently, there are many frostbitten in the world ... to varying degrees, of course.
            1. +1
              24 March 2023 13: 53
              Well, everyone believes that he is immortal, the s-300 will fly past
              Vitya hi
      3. +5
        24 March 2023 12: 57
        I wonder if there will be many foreign pilots who want to die for the Ukrokhlads?

        Well, where can you find pilots with the mentality of Ignat abroad?
      4. +1
        24 March 2023 13: 02
        The pilot is a piece of goods. They don't need a lot. Mountains of money will be promised and those who wish will immediately be found.
        There is no getting away from this, so we will see what the Russian Aerospace Forces are like against the background of a comparable enemy.
        1. +1
          24 March 2023 13: 13
          Neo-9947
          what are the Russian Aerospace Forces against the background of a comparable enemy

          you write obvious nonsense, firstly, no one will give Ukraine the latest aircraft, these are not a dozen old tanks, and secondly, the Russian Federation has a huge advantage in air defense systems and I think the detection means are also at the level. So there will be no comparable enemy there until the aviation of countries NATO won't fit. if they get in at all
        2. +6
          24 March 2023 13: 13
          Mountains of money will be promised and those who wish will immediately be found.
          A pilot with experience in the West is a sought-after and wealthy professional and he has something to lose. Not a social worker or a repulsed football fan, like "volunteers" - foot soldiers who are forced to work in England / France for a minimum wage or so. Another problem for recruiting volunteers in the West is seeing that the dill refugees themselves are wandering around your city in flocks, eating your taxes as benefits, go into battle for them (you will be killed, and he will sip beer on the beach in your cozy town) as then reluctance.
        3. -1
          24 March 2023 13: 17
          Quote: Neo-9947
          so we will see what the Russian Aerospace Forces are like against the background of a comparable enemy.

          Yes, as in other divisions, the husk will be sifted out and what is needed will remain.
      5. +1
        24 March 2023 13: 08
        Quote: ANIMAL
        I wonder if there will be many foreign pilots who want to die for the Ukrokhlads?
        I think the words about "thousands of applicants", empty chatter!

        If we take it for granted that foreign aircraft are better equipped with aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, incl. with a system to prevent attacks on their products and advance ejection over the territory controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it will not be difficult to find a couple of three thousand pilots in the west who are ready to fight "for Ukraine" for decent fees.
        The size of the allowance will be the main argument "for".
        1. +7
          24 March 2023 13: 19
          The size of the allowance will be the main argument "for".
          Dead people don't need money. And bombing African rebels is not quite the same as going against serious air defense, and any pro understands this.
          1. -2
            24 March 2023 13: 26
            Quote: Bolt Cutter
            The size of the allowance will be the main argument "for".
            Dead people don't need money. And bombing African rebels is not quite the same as going against serious air defense, and any pro understands this.

            Of course, foreigners understand this, so they will act differently and strike from the rear. No one in the Armed Forces of Ukraine will force them to cross the front line, most likely due to the fact that they will obey the United States directly and will be cast out only at their command.
          2. +1
            24 March 2023 13: 30
            Quote: Bolt Cutter
            The size of the allowance will be the main argument "for".
            Dead people don't need money.

            Money is the most important argument in Ukraine, but not everyone in the world thinks so. I also want to live, even if there is no money.
            1. +5
              24 March 2023 13: 48
              I want to live even if I don't have money.
              And how you want to live when money Yes Yes . The starting salary of a pilot in England is 65 thousand pounds a year, sort of.
            2. +2
              24 March 2023 13: 51
              Quote: carpenter
              Quote: Bolt Cutter
              The size of the allowance will be the main argument "for".
              Dead people don't need money.

              Money is the most important argument in Ukraine, but not everyone in the world thinks so. I also want to live, even if there is no money.

              It seems to me that many of us, local, and not local, but sitting in the highest echelons of our power, often simply have a weak idea of ​​the Western mentality, and it is completely different from our ideas.

              Yes, if the natives there were afraid of everything and everyone, then be sure that the same Russia never knew knightly raids, with the blessing of the Catholic Church, the Napoleonic invasion, the Crimean War, the 1st and 2nd World Wars, the occupation of part of the country's territory after the October the revolution of 1917 by a motley gang of different countries of the world, the expansion of NATO to our borders and the provocation of the war in Ukraine, which led to the NWO.

              Underestimating the enemy and engaging in self-complacency with the fact that there in the West everyone is so shy and fearful for their lives that they will not get into a fight with Russia has long been refuted by a pack of thousands of foreign thugs in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And why are Western pilots worse?
              1. +2
                24 March 2023 14: 12
                just poorly imagine the western mentality
                Having lived in England all my adult life, and not in my immigrant community, but among the locals, I represent it very well.
                will not get into a fight with Russia
                They will climb ONLY with a 100% guarantee of victory. It is adequacy and practicality - the factors that ensure victory.
                Russia has never known knightly raids
                Times and people have seriously changed since those times.
        2. -1
          24 March 2023 13: 24
          Quote: credo
          Quote: ANIMAL
          I wonder if there will be many foreign pilots who want to die for the Ukrokhlads?
          I think the words about "thousands of applicants", empty chatter!

          If we take it for granted that foreign aircraft are better equipped with aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, incl. with a system to prevent attacks on their products and advance ejection over the territory controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it will not be difficult to find a couple of three thousand pilots in the west who are ready to fight "for Ukraine" for decent fees.
          The size of the allowance will be the main argument "for".

          Of course, there will be tens of thousands of military professionals from the West to destroy Russia. The main mistake of Russia is that it allows the enemy to quietly destroy itself. No one is talking about Javelins, Leopards anymore ... Ammunition about dinner uranium ...
          Without radical devastating nuclear strikes against enemies, Russia will be destroyed.
      6. -1
        24 March 2023 13: 35
        There will be no takers. There will be an order from NATO generals and the pilots will follow the order. How many times did this happen, foreign pilots were volunteers in the First World War and the Second World War, in the Korean War, in Vietnam and so on.
        1. 0
          24 March 2023 13: 46
          the order of the NATO generals and the pilots will follow the order.
          Not a single Western general would dare to thin out his Air Force in such an exotic way. They are not stupid and know that this is not Syria.
      7. +1
        24 March 2023 13: 39
        Question about payment. There are tens of thousands, if not hundreds, of military pilots in the world. Finding a hundred or two for very good money is not a question. And if the government of their own country also says that it will treat with understanding the desire to "fight" for democracy. And it won’t be considered mercenarism then ..... By the way, the government can also break off a good "piece" from military assistance for recruitment. Find pilots. You can be sure. Tens of thousands of ordinary fighters found the same.
      8. 0
        24 March 2023 14: 02
        Perhaps not. In addition to the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Armed Forces and the Russian air defense / missile defense ...

        But Yurik himself, of course, knows better. After all, he is fasting "from the earth" ...
    2. +1
      24 March 2023 12: 50
      I completely agree with Ignat. Only suckers are looking for an excuse in the form of the presence of any obstacles. You see the goal - go to it. In fact, there are no obstacles for the start of nuclear armageddon for a long time. Sad but true.
      1. -1
        24 March 2023 15: 59
        So the whole "trick" is that Uncle Sim sets tasks for all the "Yuriks" there. And it is he who has the PURPOSE, and not them - the sixes, which, by definition, are not supposed to have "their" goals ...

        Yes, "zeal", "zeal", even "self-sacrifice", in the implementation of the tasks set by the owner for the inhabitants of Bandera-rat houses is welcome. Moral propaganda loudly. But no more...

        But they don’t give grandmothers ... They tell you to ask LOUDLY ...
    3. +4
      24 March 2023 12: 50
      "The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can recruit citizens of foreign states, there are no obstacles for this."
      - Just ... come with your litaks - added Ignat Yuri.
      1. +1
        24 March 2023 13: 42
        They will come with their litaks. How they arrived with their tanks, artillery, MLRS and infantry fighting vehicles. Here, a couple of months ago, everyone was shouting that the tanks would definitely not give the APU. A year ago they were only sent helmets
        1. -1
          24 March 2023 13: 53
          Like helmets..
          And the cry was that their West was pumping weapons to attack the Russian Federation
        2. +1
          24 March 2023 17: 39
          Soon they have been given tanks ... of the Soviet type, as well as the sides. NATO - they promise piece by piece, even, like they have already flashed somewhere. Are you being serious? The ghost of Kyiv, the ghost of Guderian...show must go on.
      2. -1
        24 March 2023 13: 43
        Quote: I dare_notice_
        - Just ... come with your litaks - added Ignat Yuri.

        And also, with their coffins.
    4. +1
      24 March 2023 12: 51
      In addition to the unwillingness to die, it is not clear for whom, well, air defense from the Russian Aerospace Forces.
    5. +3
      24 March 2023 12: 52
      Some representatives of the Nazis get rich with their thoughts. If the pilot has not sat in the pilot's seat for a long time, then the pilot from him is a bad one, This is putting it mildly. Although you can turn an airplane into a kind of UAV.
      1. +1
        24 March 2023 13: 26
        Quote: Alexander 3
        If the pilot has not sat in the pilot's seat for a long time, then the pilot from him is bad

        But even such a pilot wants to live, and not die for an independent one.
    6. +1
      24 March 2023 12: 54
      Speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ignat: There are no obstacles for foreign pilots to serve in the ranks of the Ukrainian Air Force
      . Well, yes, none ... except for quick and final disposal. And yes, no barriers.
    7. +2
      24 March 2023 12: 57
      As a suggestion, before landing in the flyover, the pilot needs to insert the passport with a tube into the fifth point, so that after "landing" it can be sorted into cities, volosts.
    8. +1
      24 March 2023 13: 19
      very modern - "speaker", this is apparently in the literal translation "talker", as the postman Pechkin called. Well done to all - now they have this speaker in every battalion, you just can’t listen to everyone
    9. +1
      24 March 2023 13: 23
      So in Kyiv they will only welcome foreigners in the cockpits of fighters.

      I think that a foreign pilot who has sat in the cockpit of a Ukrainian fighter understands that his life from now on is a maximum of three flights. There is something to think about before they squeeze into the cockpit of the "Ukrofighter".
    10. +2
      24 March 2023 13: 29
      I don’t even know what crazy person, knowing the situation in the sky of Ukraine, wants to land even in F16, this is complete madness. Ukrainian pilots, if they fly up to the territory of the Donetsk region, do not live long, this is a fact, some made a couple of even three successful flights, and then everything was a wooden mac... I wish the speaker to sit at the helm and look for his last Buk or C300
      1. -1
        24 March 2023 13: 51
        Well, as if NATO pilots were trained to break through and destroy air defense. Gaining air superiority is the main goal in any NATO company. They have a lot of equipment and weapons for this, and all tactics and strategy are tailored for this. So why what, but NATO has long-range and high-precision systems like a fool of candy wrappers. At the same time, they will run in their new items. It's still a big question who gets hurt more. Air Force of Ukraine or Air Defense of the Russian Federation.
        1. 0
          24 March 2023 17: 44
          Well, how would they teach. Ukrainians, too, probably, were not trained to spray corn on Sushki with herbicides. Experience, that is, on "breaking through a real air defense system"? Or like in the 1943 film "Bomber", a purely theoretical base with a Hollywood twist?
    11. 0
      24 March 2023 13: 48
      There are no obstacles other than the desire of flyers to live to old age, or at least be able to spend the promised money :)
    12. -2
      24 March 2023 13: 58
      Connecting to aircraft .. F16 and Eurofighters will soon come to Ukraine with their pilots who suddenly decide to enroll in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
    13. 0
      24 March 2023 14: 02
      There were a lot of requests from people related to aviation. (...) If there is a military specialty like pilot
      - the pilot is Mimino! wassat In military aviation, at least in Russian - PILOT soldier

      the question is very interesting: will foreign pilots take off and land on planes from Khokhlosvin airfields or from NATO airfields? there is a big difference - if NATO is Russian, then this is NATO's "direct" participation in the database !!! am
    14. +1
      24 March 2023 14: 27
      According to Ignat, since the beginning of the Russian special operation, "thousands of people" have already turned to the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wanting to participate in hostilities on the side of Ukraine against "Russian invaders." Among them were citizens of foreign countries.

      Absolutely exactly the same arguments have been cited for the past eight years by the authorities of the DPR and LPR on the issue of the participation of Russians in the war for Donbass ... And it was these same arguments that the same crazy midwife von der Leyen cited as proof that "Russia is fighting on the side separatists" and said that there was no more need to prove anything - and now "we must officially recognize Russia as a belligerent."
    15. +1
      24 March 2023 15: 17
      Another nonsense from the Sumerians.
      There will be no "thousands of applicants", for those who are not in the know: 130-150 people with education and appropriate training work for one sortie.
      Yes, there was infa, they caught the body of a Lithuanian pilot without legs near the coast of Turkey, this is from a downed Sumerian Su-24.
      1. 0
        24 March 2023 15: 47
        Are there white sharks in the Black Sea?
        1. +1
          24 March 2023 15: 58
          No, loss of qualifications, when ejecting, you need to group up, gripping legs, limiters, there are a lot of things, for 50 years, so the carcass legs were torn off during ejection.
    16. 0
      25 March 2023 11: 03
      There are no obstacles for foreign pilots to serve in the Ukrainian Air Force
      , Perhaps, except for one - they do not live long.
      But for mercenaries, as they say welcome to hell!
    17. 0
      25 March 2023 15: 21
      How many military experts - so many opinions. One thing is obvious, there are already tanks and missiles, with foreign servants and repairs, there will be planes with helicopters, pilots and technical staff in the kit. The conflict between the West and Russia on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR will grow, because the Western pack will not get into a full-scale conflict because of nuclear weapons, the meaning of victory is lost. But with the hands of dough and adventure seekers, you can compete for resources even in such a filthy way as a proxy war.
    18. +1
      25 March 2023 18: 24
      Well, they can serve. There is only one problem: under Russian law, a prisoner of war who is not a citizen of one of the countries participating in the conflict ceases to be a prisoner of war and is recognized as a mercenary, who falls under article 359 of the criminal code on mercenarism.
    19. 0
      25 March 2023 20: 59
      Look at the Telega video from the "Wagners" 200 with the documents of the current sergeant of the US Army, a special forces detachment of the Marine Corps. That's the question of why our Foreign Ministry is silent. Why is there no reaction? Our inaction leads precisely to such statements of all "specialists." be, but why do we hide all these "warriors" ourselves. That's what's interesting.

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