Biden says Zelensky has guaranteed him that Ukraine will not use F-16 fighters on Russian soil

The president of USA, Joe Bidensaid this Sunday that his counterpart from Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyhas guaranteed that you will not use the F-16 fighters of United States manufacture against targets within the territory of Russia.

“I have Zelensky’s full guarantee that they will not use them to go forward and move against Russia in its geographic territory. Another thing is if the Russian troops are inside the area of Ukraine”, Biden said at a press conference in hiroshimawhere the summit of leaders of the G7 after three days of meetings.

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During the summit, the US president told his G7 partners that USA will help train Ukrainian pilots in handling the F-16 fighters and it opened the door to deliver those planes to Ukraine in the future.

Biden had resisted for months to deliver those planes to kyivbut the pressure from Ukraine and several European countries had been increasing.

In fact, the countries of the EU (of which have representation in the G7 Germany, France and Italy) are discussing internally how and when to proceed with the shipment of the F-16s and potentially other European-made aircraft, while the United Kingdom and other EU members have launched a “international coalition” with the same objective.

White House National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivanhe stressed in the program “State of the Union“from CNN that there isn’t one yet”final decision” about.

“Given the currently available numbers of our European allies’ reserves and the fact that, based on the money Congress has given us, there are many other systems priorities to give to Ukraine, we may focus more on a transfer to third parties. , but the president has not made a final decision“, said.

Sullivan also did not put a date on when Ukraine could receive the first fighters.

“I’m not going to set a schedule. What the president (Biden) has said is that he will sit down with his European allies and with the Ukrainians to see who, when and how many fighters are sent. And we’re in that process right now.”, he explained from Japan.

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Biden met this Sunday on the margins of the G7 with Zelensky, who arrived in Hiroshima on Saturday amid great expectation and aboard an official plane of the French Republic.

Zelensky came to the G7 with a double objective: to obtain greater military support from the West for the war and to start talks with countries like Brazil and the Indiawhich have refused to side with the West in condemning the invasion and continue to trade with Russia.

This same Sunday, Zelensky got Biden to announce another 375 million dollars in military aid for Ukraine, thereby Washington It has already provided kyiv with some $38 billion in military assistance, according to Pentagon data this Sunday.

Source: Elcomercio

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