{"id":1360447,"date":"2026-02-20T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/france-to-deliver-additional-mirage-fighters-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:42:10","slug":"france-to-deliver-additional-mirage-fighters-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/france-to-deliver-additional-mirage-fighters-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"France to deliver additional Mirage fighters to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukraine will receive 2 Mirage 2000 fighters from France as part of military assistance by the end of the first quarter of 2026 (by May 10). The aircraft are to supplement the 3 aircraft transferred earlier, one of which was lost.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by the journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/militarnyi.com\/uk\/news\/ukrayina-nezabarom-otrymaye-dva-vynyshhuvachi-mirage-2000-vid-frantsiyi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Military&#8221;<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/romainmielcarek\/status\/2021259042820116731?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">According<\/a> to journalist Romain Melcarec, the 2 aircraft will be delivered in addition to the 3 delivered last year. Thus, by the end of 2026, Ukraine will have 4 Mirage 2000 fighters at its disposal, since 1 aircraft was lost last summer.<\/p>\n<p> The transfer of new aircraft will be accompanied by additional training for pilots and ground personnel who will provide their maintenance.<\/p>\n<p> In the long term, the Ukrainian Air Force will have at least 6 French Mirage 2000s.<\/p>\n<p> According to Melkarek, the maintenance costs of 3 fighter jets are 10 million euros per year.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced preparations for the transfer of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/partnery-mozhut-peredaty-ukraini-150-vynyshchuvachiv-gripen-ta-100-rafale\/\">agreements to supply Ukraine with 150 Gripen aircraft and 100 Rafale aircraft<\/a> . According to him, these aircraft will be new and should strengthen the state&#8217;s aviation capabilities.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that France announced another package of military support for Ukraine, which includes <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/https-prm-ua-p-1311263-preview-true\/\">the transfer of additional Mirage 2000 fighters and Aster missiles<\/a> , intended to strengthen the Ukrainian air defense system.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine will receive 2 Mirage 2000 fighters from France as part of military assistance by the end of the first quarter of 2026 (by May 10). The aircraft are to supplement the 3 aircraft transferred earlier, one of which was lost. This is reported by the journalist &#8220;Military&#8221; . According to journalist Romain Melcarec, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1266438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1360447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}