{"id":1398673,"date":"2026-05-28T15:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sweden-confirms-delivery-of-gripen-fighters-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:16:29","slug":"sweden-confirms-delivery-of-gripen-fighters-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/sweden-confirms-delivery-of-gripen-fighters-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Opens the Skies: Gripen Fighter Jets Headed to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweden will deliver the first 16 Gripen fighters to Ukraine. These are JAS 39 Gripen C\/D aircraft undergoing modification, and deliveries are expected in early 2027.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This was announced<\/a> by Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson during a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n

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According to Kristersson, the fighters should strengthen Ukraine’s air defense system and Europe’s air defenses in general.<\/p>\n

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“Ukrainian pilots have already flown Gripen fighters, and you told us that this is an extremely big change,” the Swedish prime minister said.<\/p>\n

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that Gripen aircraft will help Ukraine more effectively counter Russian guided bombs, as they will be delivered together with the appropriate weapons.<\/p>\n

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Zelensky also announced that he had arrived in Sweden on a working visit to discuss a new large defense package for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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“We are preparing a large defense package for Ukraine and a strong step towards Gripen fighters, which will definitely make our combat aviation more effective,” the president said.<\/p>\n

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According to Zelensky, negotiations with representatives of the Swedish defense industry are also planned as part of the visit.<\/p>\n

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As a reminder, Sweden may soon announce the transfer of Jas 39 Gripen fighters to Ukraine.<\/a> In addition, Stockholm is allegedly considering selling Kyiv more modern versions of these aircraft with the support of the European Union.<\/p>\n

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Sweden will deliver the first 16 Gripen fighters to Ukraine. These are JAS 39 Gripen C\/D aircraft undergoing modification, and deliveries are expected in early 2027.   This was announced by Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson during a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.   According to Kristersson, the fighters should strengthen Ukraine’s air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1398796,"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-1398673","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\/1398673","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398798,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398673\/revisions\/1398798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1398796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}