Biden: Zelensky Gave ‘Flat Assurance’ American-Made Fighter Jets Won’t Be Used to Attack Russian Mai

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Biden: Zelensky Gave ‘Flat Assurance’ American-Made Fighter Jets Won’t Be Used to Attack Russian Mainland

Kurt Zindulka 21 May 2023

President Joe Biden claimed on Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed that American-made F-16 fighter jets will not be used to attack Russian territory.

At the tail end of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, President Biden said that President Zelensky provided him with a “flat assurance” that Western-supplied F-16 fighter planes will not be used to attack Russia itself, but rather “wherever Russian troops are within Ukraine and the area,” the Reuters news agency reported.

While his troops were facing potential defeat in the key stronghold of Bakhmut over the weekend, with Russia claiming it had captured the city and Ukrainian defence officials denying outright defeat, Zelensky travelled to Japan to once again push Western allies to provide his country with more weapons and aid.

On this front, Zelensky was successful, with President Biden announcing that despite the ongoing feud in Washington over the debt ceiling, the American taxpayer would supply Ukraine with another $375 million in military aid, including armoured vehicles and artillery.

Perhaps more crucially was the approval from the White House for its NATO allies to supply Ukraine with American-made F-16 fighter jets, a move which President Zelensky has long lobbied for under the premise that its current fleet of MiG-29 Soviet-era planes previously supplied by Poland and Slovakia are outdated and inefficient compared to the American hardware.

President Biden also gave the go-ahead for Western allies to begin training Ukrainian fighter pilots on how to operate the F-16 jets in Europe.

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/21/biden-zelensky-gave-flat-assurance-american-made-f-16-jets-wont-be-used-to-attack-russian-mainland/

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Biden: Zelensky Gave ‘Flat Assurance’ American-Made Fighter Jets Won’t Be Used to Attack Russian Mainland

Kurt Zindulka 21 May 2023

President Joe Biden claimed on Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed that American-made F-16 fighter jets will not be used to attack Russian territory.

At the tail end of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, President Biden said that President Zelensky provided him with a “flat assurance” that Western-supplied F-16 fighter planes will not be used to attack Russia itself, but rather “wherever Russian troops are within Ukraine and the area,” the Reuters news agency reported.

While his troops were facing potential defeat in the key stronghold of Bakhmut over the weekend, with Russia claiming it had captured the city and Ukrainian defence officials denying outright defeat, Zelensky travelled to Japan to once again push Western allies to provide his country with more weapons and aid.

On this front, Zelensky was successful, with President Biden announcing that despite the ongoing feud in Washington over the debt ceiling, the American taxpayer would supply Ukraine with another $375 million in military aid, including armoured vehicles and artillery.

Perhaps more crucially was the approval from the White House for its NATO allies to supply Ukraine with American-made F-16 fighter jets, a move which President Zelensky has long lobbied for under the premise that its current fleet of MiG-29 Soviet-era planes previously supplied by Poland and Slovakia are outdated and inefficient compared to the American hardware.

President Biden also gave the go-ahead for Western allies to begin training Ukrainian fighter pilots on how to operate the F-16 jets in Europe.

more
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/21/biden-zelensky-gave-flat-assurance-american-made-f-16-jets-wont-be-used-to-attack-russian-mainland/

Well...this should work out well for us.   

[Kamaji]

Apropos of Bakhmut, an accurate appraisal of that situation would not characterize it as a defeat, particularly since Ukraine forces have the city center almost encircled by now.  The real defeat is for the Russians, who have lost thousands and thousands of soldiers, tons of equipment, and the ability to go further west from Bakhmut, and are now at risk of being kicked out of the city itself.

[Hoodat]

Biden continues to run his mouth like a complete fool.  Some things are better left unsaid.

[PeteS in CA]

Since Russia is firing ground-launched and air launched missiles from within Russian territory, military and logistics facilities in Russian territory within longest missile range are valid targets. Russian borderlands should not be safe sanctuary for munitions storage and staging orc attack forces.

[verga]

Did Biden check to see if Zelensky had his fingers crossed behind his back?

[Kamaji]

Biden continues to run his mouth like a complete fool.  Some things are better left unsaid.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Since Russia is firing ground-launched and air launched missiles from within Russian territory, military and logistics facilities in Russian territory within longest missile range are valid targets. Russian borderlands should not be safe sanctuary for munitions storage and staging orc attack forces.

Yes, but it makes a lot more sense to attack those targets with unmanned weapons rather than with F-16's anyway.

[Free Vulcan]

Flat assurances