President Joe Biden rejected Ukraine's plea to send fighter jets to fight Vladimir Putin's war.
When asked if the U.S. will send F-16 s fighter jets to Ukraine, Biden replied, No, reported Reuters.
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He said he would visit crucial ally Poland. I'm going to Poland. I don't know when he spoke to the media.
Ukraine has been pushing for fourth-generation fighter jets such as the American F-16 and missiles to beat Russia after securing dozens of high-end battle tanks from Western allies earlier this week.
The next big hurdle will now be the fighter jets, according to Yuriy Sak, advisor to Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov. If we get them the advantages on the battlefield will be immense, he said. It is not just F-16 s, fourth-generation aircraft, this is what we want.
Germany and the U.S. did not allow the possibility of fighter jets being sent to Ukraine. I made it very clear very early on that we are not talking about combat aircraft, and I am doing the same here, according to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Russians that they had begun exacting its revenge for Kyiv's resistance to its invasion with relentless attacks in the east.
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