The United States will not transfer F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, said US President Joe Biden.
“No,” Biden replied monosyllabically, commenting at the White House on a reporter’s question about whether the president supports sending fighter jets to Ukraine.
On the eve of the delivery of the F-16 asked the Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov.
The United States is already supplying weapons that Ukraine needs this winter and spring, John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator at the White House National Security Council, later noted.
“To that, I can say that significant amounts of aid are already being sent, and will continue to be sent in the coming weeks and months. These are the weapons that we know will be critical for Ukrainians in the winter, as well as for the fighting that they expect in the spring,” he said.
Earlier, Politico, citing sources, reported that Western countries are discussing the possibility of transferring F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, especially the Baltic countries support this idea. However, this issue is likely to be “more controversial” than the situation with tanks, the newspaper noted.
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In the meantime, the United States sent the first batch of Bradley infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. The cargo, which included more than 60 infantry fighting vehicles, left North Charleston (South Carolina) last week, according to the command website.
Bradley “will provide Ukrainian forces with additional offensive and defensive capabilities to protect their borders from Russia’s illegal incursion,” the report says.
Along with them, the Joe Biden administration previously announced an additional $2.5 billion in aid, including more combat vehicles, ammunition, missiles and Stryker armored personnel carriers. In total, Washington approved the transfer of 109 infantry fighting vehicles to Kyiv.
