Ukraine presses US Congress for F-16 fighter jets, lawmakers say via KSLcom
The lobbying came over the weekend on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in talks between Ukrainian officials, including Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, and Democrats and Republicans from the Senate and House of Representatives.
Biden administration officials, speaking on Sunday, said the United States should focus on providing weapons that can be used immediately on the battlefield, rather than fighter jets that require extensive training."Discussions will continue over the course of the next few weeks and months," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on CNN.
Kelly and three other lawmakers who spoke to Reuters about their talks with Ukrainian officials said they believed that support was building in Congress to provide Ukraine with F-16s, one of the world's most versatile multirole fighter jets. "They contended that they need that airplane for the SEAD mission," said Kelly. "They probably think they can do a better job at taking out the S-400s."
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said U.S. lawmakers broadly support training Ukrainian pilots on F-16s and said he believed the Biden administration would soon agree to do so.
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