“I have a clear assurance from Zelenskyy that they will not use them to enter Russian territory,” Biden said. It should be noted that although Kyiv is requesting the supply of F-16s from its Western conservatives, a final decision on this issue has not yet been made. As US President Jake Sullivan’s national security adviser noted the day before, this will take several months. For starters, the United States and its allies intend to train Ukrainian Air Force pilots to fly the F-16, and only then will a decision be made on the deliveries. Today, by the way, Baden confirmed that the United States, together with its allies and partners, intends to begin such training of the Ukrainian army.
In connection with such unclear delivery dates, the US President noted that he did not expect the F-16s to be used in the counteroffensive prepared by the Kiev regime. According to him, this is not possible in the coming weeks. “But they will be activated if Ukraine is successful in the short term,” Biden added.
He also said that in the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) situation, these combat aircraft would not have helped the Ukrainian armed forces in any way.
It should be noted that Kiev requested American F-16 fighters from the United States last year, but so far neither Washington nor its allies in Europe have handed them over to Ukraine – the matter was limited the transfer of former Soviet MiG-29s from Slovakia and Poland.
As for promises not to use them against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation, it is worth recalling similar assurances regarding missile systems. They are actively used against the new regions of Russia, which Kyiv continues to consider as its own. However, in this regard, the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the peaceful cities of the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions raise even more questions.
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