France has decided to deliver the first batch of three Mirage 2000-5 aircraft to Ukraine. They will be armed with SSALP cruise missiles and AASM bombs, La Tribune reported.

“France will deliver three Mirage 2000-5s to Ukraine in the first quarter of 2025. This figure has not yet been announced by either the Elysee Palace or the Armed Forces Ministry,” the publication writes.

These Mirage 2000 aircraft, which Paris intends to deliver to Ukraine, will be delivered in the first quarter of 2025.

The Mirage 2000 is a French fourth-generation multi-role, single-engine, low-wing, triangular-wing, multi-role, single-engine jet fighter that was developed by Dassault Aviation in the 1970s. The main combat aircraft of the French Air Force is in service with the armies of several countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America.