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The mirage that crashed in Ukraine on Tuesday evening is the first to be officially destroyed at the front since France began to transfer his devices to Kiev. Paris has always remained vague on the exact number of devices transferred, but according to the latest figures, six Mirage 2000-5 were promised and at least three were delivered at the beginning of 2025.

However, this figure could increase, the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, after he had announced in March during a visit to the Luxeuil Air Base (Haute-Saône) of the planes sent to Ukraine, to study this option. These other devices can mainly come from countries that currently use Mirage, such as Qatar, even if negotiations seem difficult. The transfer of this mirroring is a tough choice for the French Air Force whose capacity is also counted.

The loss of this mirage in Ukraine did not end at the death of the pilot and would be due to one “Aeronautic failure”According to Kyiv. However, every lost device is a blow to Ukrainian troops whose fleet is extremely limited and not very homogeneous. In the summer of 2024, the battle destruction of the first F-16 had transferred to Ukraine to the departure of the head of the Air Force Staff, pushed to the exit by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zensky.

The Ukrainians have often said that they would ideally need the transfer of at least one hundred fighter aircraft to properly guarantee the defense of Ukrainian sky, in connection with the defense systems of the Patriottype. According to the last confirmed state data, however, Ukrainians have received so far, in addition to their old MIG-21 fleet, only 24 F-16’s American production from the Netherlands, and an unlimited number of comparable aircraft from Denmark, at the end of 2024, of the 19 promised in total in total.

Norway, on the other hand, had to complete the transfer of at least six aircraft by the end of the year. Belgium was supposed to transfer its fleet of 28 F-16 this year, but this shipment will not take place before 2026.