Biden: US will not send F-16s to Ukraine Last Minute GERMANY, Russia headlines and events

President Joe Biden said the United States would not supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets.

Yuriy Sak, chief adviser to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, said last week that after Ukraine promised to supply battle tanks from Western countries, including German Leopard tanks and American Abrams tanks, this time around fourth-generation military aircraft such as American F-16. He stated that he would insist on it.

A representative of the Ukrainian Air Force said that the training of pilots of such combat aircraft takes six months.

Asked if the US would supply F-16s, Biden said “No.”

President Joe Biden announced that he would visit Poland today after it was revealed that a recent trip to Europe was on the agenda; However, he said that he did not yet know when the visit would take place.

Ukraine last week gave a lot of support against the Russian invasion as long-standing differences were resolved and Germany and the US decided to buy heavy tanks.

Ukraine’s neighbor on the western border, Poland, is one of the strongest defenders of the Kyiv government.

Zelensky: “Russia launched revenge attacks”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in Odessa today that Russia is conducting repeated attacks in the east of the country to avenge Ukrainian resistance.

Zelenskiy has been saying for weeks that Moscow plans to step up its attacks on Ukraine after nearly two months of stalemate along the front lines in southern and eastern Ukraine.

Denis Pushilin, the Ukrainian administrator of the Russian-controlled areas of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, said Russian troops had been stationed in Vuhledar, a Ukrainian stronghold coal-mining town, since the start of the war, although there were no signs of a new war. major Russian offensive.

Pushilin said that Ukrainian forces continue to send support from north to south to west from Donetsk to the cities of Bakhmut, Maryinka and Vuhledar.

Pushilin’s adviser Yan Gagin noted that militants loyal to Wagner’s Russian mercenary forces had partially taken control of the supply route to Bakhmut, which had been the focus of Moscow’s attention for several months.

The leader of the Wagner group said yesterday that his fighters had captured Blagodatnoye, north of Bakhmut.

He claimed to have repelled attacks in Kyiv, Blagodatny and Vugledar. The Reuters news agency was unable to independently verify these reports.

On the other hand, hundreds of modern tanks and armored vehicles promised by the West to Ukraine are still a few months away from Russia in order to regain the occupied territories with a counterattack.

Moscow sent thousands of prisoners, recruited from Russian prisons by the Wagner mercenary group, to fight around Bakhmut.

The move will give Russia time to restructure its military as it recruits thousands of reservists.

Zelensky urges the West to speed up the delivery of the promised weapons.

Peskov: “Shipments of weapons do not change the course of the war”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Western arms supplies are increasingly drawing NATO countries into the war, but this is unlikely to change the course of events.

The US-based think tank War Study cited the West’s failure to provide Ukraine with needed supplies last year as the reason Kyiv’s advance on the ground has stalled since November.

A report released by the institution said that this situation allowed Russia to put pressure on Bakhmut and strengthen the front against a future Ukrainian counteroffensive.

The report also notes that Ukraine can return the territory with the arrival of the promised weapons.

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24 last year, approaches its first year, thousands have died; Millions of people were forced to leave their homes.

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