{"id":56892,"date":"2025-11-17T19:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ukraine-to-buy-100-french-fighter-jets-to-boost-defenses-as-russia-continues-attacks-seizes-more-ground\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:46:21","slug":"ukraine-to-buy-100-french-fighter-jets-to-boost-defenses-as-russia-continues-attacks-seizes-more-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ukraine-to-buy-100-french-fighter-jets-to-boost-defenses-as-russia-continues-attacks-seizes-more-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine to buy 100 French fighter jets to boost defenses as Russia continues attacks, seizes more ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Smiling on the tarmac of an airbase outside Paris, Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a deal with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday for his country to buy as many as 100 of France&#8217;s most advanced Rafale fighter jets over the next decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft is the best military jet that France has for air-to-air combat, missile interceptions and for longer-range strikes \u2014 capabilities that are crucial to defend Ukraine&#8217;s cities from <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/ukraine-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Russia&#8217;s relentless missile and drone attacks<\/a><\/span> going into the winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be the greatest air defense \u2014   one of the greatest in the world,&#8221; Zelenskyy told reporters after he signed the letter of intent for the purchase with Macron at the Villacoublay military airbase. The Ukrainian president has pushed his Western partners for months to bolster the country&#8217;s air defense capabilities amid relentless Russian missile and drone strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, Russia&#8217;s military launched more than 100 more missiles and drones at Ukraine, killing at least three people in the eastern Kharkiv region and hitting energy facilities in the southern Odesa region, knocking out electricity to thousands of homes, according to Ukrainian officials.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate reaction from the Kremlin to the French-Ukrainian military agreement, which both Paris and Kyiv touted as a landmark moment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/17\/1398990a-9697-4d9c-8358-1d910ebe3fad\/thumbnail\/620x354\/e1227c8af47ac88e27bd806273b9bc2b\/rafale-f4-fighter-jet-2189952841.jpg#\" alt=\"LITHUANIA-FRANCE-NATO-DEFENCE \" height=\"354\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/17\/1398990a-9697-4d9c-8358-1d910ebe3fad\/thumbnail\/620x354\/e1227c8af47ac88e27bd806273b9bc2b\/rafale-f4-fighter-jet-2189952841.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/17\/1398990a-9697-4d9c-8358-1d910ebe3fad\/thumbnail\/1240x708\/b44551b1b69c17ad701e1c262601e806\/rafale-f4-fighter-jet-2189952841.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A Rafale B standard F4 fighter jet of France&#8217;s air force is guided to its parking place as part of NATO&#8217;s Enhanced Air Policing (eAP) mission in the Baltic States, Dec. 17, 2024, at Siauliai airbase in Lithuania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                PETRAS MALUKAS\/AFP\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Today marks a significant moment, truly historic for both our nations \u2014   France and Ukraine,&#8221; Zelenskyy said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1990387415291208164?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media post<\/a>, adding that the joint defense agreement, &#8220;enables Ukraine to procure military equipment from France&#8217;s defense industrial and technological base, including 100 Rafale F4 aircraft by 2035 for Ukraine&#8217;s combat aviation, SAMP\/T air-defense systems, air-defense radars, air-to-air missiles, and aerial bombs.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joint projects between our defense sectors will also begin this year,&#8221; Zelenskyy said. &#8220;We will co-produce interceptor drones and work on developing <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ukraine-robot-rescues-soldier-trapped-russian-occupied-territory-ground-drone\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">critical technologies and components<\/a><\/span> that can be integrated into Ukrainian drones. New aircraft, new reinforcements, new steps to strengthen our army and our country. I am deeply grateful to France, President Emmanuel Macron, and all the French people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Macron <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EmmanuelMacron\/status\/1990369290365915211?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted a photo<\/a> of the two leaders smiling in front of a Rafale jet, with the flags of both nations as a backdrop. The caption, in both French and Ukrainian, said simply: &#8220;Great day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/17\/e2799020-5594-4eaa-b781-f5e8a63e0da3\/thumbnail\/620x413g8\/e2b152c704a7b39117ffcb49e95416a4\/zelenskyy-macron.jpg#\" alt=\"Ukrainian President Zelenskiy arrives in France for official visit \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/17\/e2799020-5594-4eaa-b781-f5e8a63e0da3\/thumbnail\/620x413g8\/e2b152c704a7b39117ffcb49e95416a4\/zelenskyy-macron.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/17\/e2799020-5594-4eaa-b781-f5e8a63e0da3\/thumbnail\/1240x826g8\/ec4e2e69c329b59f8d0c42243880f890\/zelenskyy-macron.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">French President Emmanuel Macron (right) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands after signing an agreement at the Villacoublay airbase near Paris, France, Nov. 17, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Christophe Ena\/Pool\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The presidents also visited the headquarters of a nascent multinational force for post-war Ukraine, just west of Paris at Mont Val\u00e9rian. 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