Blinken Won’t Rule Out Sending Fighter Planes to Ukraine Eventually
- UK Plans To Train Ukrainian Pilots, Consider Sending Jets
- US initially resisted sending Abrams tanks but relented
A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet.
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The US government continues to resist calls to provide Ukraine with fighter jets, but Secretary of State Antony Blinken stopped short of categorically ruling out such assistance down the road.
“At every step along the way, as needs have evolved, so too has what we have provided Ukraine,” Blinken told reporters in Washington when asked about sending planes. “And that most recently took place with the decision to provide the Abrams tanks, and of course Germany providing the Leopard tanks and other Europeans doing the same.”