NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that training Ukrainian pilots to use US-made F-16 fighters does not make the alliance a party to the conflict.
""Ukraine has the right to self-defense... and we help it to uphold this right," he said
"This does not make NATO and its allies a party to the conflict," he added.
The European Union's foreign policy commissioner confirmed today, Tuesday, that the United States allowing Ukrainian pilots to train on the F-16s created a great momentum that will eventually bring the fighter jets to the Ukrainian battlefield.