US Senator Lindsey Graham said the White House may soon announce the start of training for Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighters. Congress is insisting on moving these fighter jets to Kiev, the Carolina Republican said. of the South in an interview on ABC television, which he gave during the Munich security conferences in Germany.
I am sure that soon after we return to Washington, the administration will decide on the training of Ukrainian pilots to fly the F – 16
pointed out the senator.
According to him, the opinion that the United States “should start training Ukrainian pilots today to fly F-16s so that they can receive them as soon as possible” is supported by the vast majority of American lawmakers. . Graham also recalled the words of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who announced that London had offered Ukraine to start training fighter pilots, who serve in NATO.
The Politico newspaper reported on February 17 that a group of five members of Congress, including both Democrats and Republicans, sent a letter to US President Joe Biden calling for the handover of F-16 fighter jets to the ‘Ukraine.
Michael McCall, head of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, said Feb. 19 that progress was being made in delivering F-16 fighters to Ukraine. The lawmaker urged the White House to transfer everything necessary to Kiev. According to him, any delay in the supply of weapons increases the duration of the conflict.
Earlier it became known that the Patriot air defense system transferred from Germany was deployed in the Polish city of Zamosc in the Lublin Voivodeship. The place of the new deployment of the American air defense system is located 150 km from the Belarusian Brest and only 50 km from the Ukrainian-Polish border. Polish air defense forces can now control the skies above the Lviv and Lutsk regions of Ukraine, as the Patriot has a high-altitude target detection range of 170 km.
