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The Swedish Embassy in Ukraine after the announcement of the Gripen deal. (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 10 points 6 months ago

Litaki Letyatv ?

Can someone translate that for someone who can only decipher Cyrillic on a Kindergarten level?

[-] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The planes are flying.

Although in another thread on this topic it seems the Swedish MoD said the delivery would only be after the end of the war. Which seems ridiculous if true.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 18 points 6 months ago

New build ones would be after the war, but they're saying that the possibility of transferring some of Sweden's existing aircraft remains open

[-] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Let's hope at least existing ones will be delivered.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 6 months ago

Are they putting a time limit on the war, or will they only deliver them once there’s some kind of armistice?

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Let's just say I'm pretty sure they are not delaying them unnecessarily since they have already gifted/delivered both fighter jets and surveillance planes.
So either it's a matter of production time in Sweden, or it's a matter of Ukraine focusing their resources during the war.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 6 months ago

No idea, I'm afraid

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

That sounds a lot like incentivizing Russia to... not end the war.

[-] ephrin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

FYI that last character is just a “stop” character, not a в/В. So Letyat.

[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 4 points 6 months ago

Interesting, thanks for the explanation. Sounds as quirky as the french with their silent h… I mean, we generally see that a word is ending ;)

[-] ephrin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah my understanding of Ukrainian is limited to what I’ve picked up from DuoLingo. 😅 I can see why you’d include a character like that in the middle of a word, but at the end? ¯_(ツ)_/¯