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Second hand jets are good enough. Ukraine needs the jets as bombers to either cluster bombs the Russian cowards hiding in trenches or shoot down their helos and bombers from the distance.The Russians are the ones that can put a stop to the killing of Ukrainans by stopping killing Ukrainans.
The F-16 will neither make or break the win. It will simply tilt the war towards Ukraine. What will win the war is persistence.
I doubt that is in the plans.
Ukraine will get second hand jets, be it F-16 or Gripen.
The Czech Republic and Hungary might give up their Gripens when they have replacements. South Africa has surplus Gripens and might be persuaded to get rid of a dozen if Putin angers them for some reason.
Other role is hunting Russian artillery. Ukraine don’t need F35s for these missions. Europe air forces will eventually acquire F35s they can donate all F16s.