Under a previous government, Slovakia donated its fleet of near-obsolete Russian fighters to the Ukrainian war effort.
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00:00Slovakia received the first two of the 14 new F-16 military jets from the United States
00:06on Monday.
00:08President Peter Pellegrini hailed the arrival of the F-16s at the Kuchina Air Base.
00:13The rest of the jets will be gradually delivered in two years.
00:18Last year, the government approved a plan to give Ukraine its fleet of 13 MiG-29s, becoming
00:24the second NATO member country to heed the Ukraine government's pleas for warplanes to
00:29help defend against Russian invasion.