Senior Defense Department officials were leaning toward supplying Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets until President Biden quashed the idea this year, Sen. Dan Sullivan said Sunday.
The Alaska Republican sent a letter about Ukraine’s urgent need for fighter jets to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, after hosting a delegation of Ukrainian pilots last summer on Capitol Hill.
But that momentum came to a grinding halt in January after Mr. Biden responded with a terse “no” to a reporter’s question about providing Kyiv with fighter jets. A study by the British Royal United Services Institute think tank said Ukraine needs Western jet fighters to take on Russia’s much larger air force.
“Russian pilots have been cautious throughout the war, so even a small number of Western fighters could have a major deterrent effect,” RUSI said in a November 2022 report.
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