According to US President Joe Biden, the US would not give Ukraine the F-16 fighters it has requested for its conflict with Russia.
Shortly before Biden made his statement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Russia had started attacking Ukraine relentless in the east as retaliation for Ukraine’s resistance to its invasion.Ukraine recently received a major boost when the US and Germany confirmed plans to send heavy tanks to the nation.
US President Joe Biden says United States will not provide F-16 fighter jets Ukraine sought against Russia
After procuring main battle tanks last week, Ukraine intended to seek for western fourth-generation fighter jets like the F-16, a defence minister’s advisor said on Friday. A representative for the Ukrainian air force estimated that training for such fighter jets would take its pilots around six months.
In its ongoing conflict with Russia, Ukraine has claimed that it needs the jets to seize control of its airspace.
F-16 Fighting Falcons are employed by several nations, including Belgium and Pakistan, and are regarded as among the most dependable fighter jets in the world.
They would represent a substantial improvement over the Soviet-era fighter jets that Ukraine presently employs, which were created before the nation’s independence from the USSR was proclaimed more than 30 years ago.
In the meantime, the Russian forces in eastern Ukraine have reported a number of incremental victories.
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Ukraine dilemma and Russian Reconstitution of its regular units
The hundreds of modern tanks and armoured vehicles that Western nations have recently offered to Ukraine are reportedly months away from delivery.
As a result, Kyiv will have to fight through the winter in what both sides have called a merciless attritional war.
In order to gain time for Russia’s regular military to reassemble battalions with hundreds of thousands of reservists, Moscow’s Wagner mercenary force has sent thousands of prisoners recruited from Russian jails into battle around Bakhmut.
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