TASS – July 11, 2024
F-16 fighter jets to be transferred by the West to Kiev will be based inside Ukraine, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters.
“The F-16s will be based in Ukraine,” he said.
The official didn’t provide details when asked whether the F-16s in Ukraine’s possession will take off from NATO bases when operating against Russian forces.
Sullivan refused to say how many fighter jets will be transferred to Kiev in total, and exactly when they could start combat missions.
“Those are just things I can’t share for operational reasons. What we have said is that the transfer is underway, and that Ukrainian pilots will be operating in theater this summer in F-16s,” he said.
According to the official, this equipment will help Kiev “defend the forces on the front line and also help Ukraine as it seeks down the road to take back territory.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that deliveries of new weapons, including F-16s, to Ukraine would not change the situation on the battlefield, but would lead to a prolongation of the situation. He also noted that the fighter jets, if Ukraine comes to operate them, will burn just like any other much-touted Western military equipment.
Pentagon says may authorize Kiev to use US weapons to strike deep into Russia
TASS –July 12, 2024
“But right now, we have not authorized the use of ATACMS for deep strike capabilities within Russia,” US Department of Defense Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh stressed
WASHINGTON, July 12. /TASS/. Washington has changed its policy and may authorize the use of its weapons deep inside Russia, US Department of Defense Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said.
“Our policy hasn’t changed. We do allow those cross-border strikes when Russia is attacking from the other side of the border,” she told a briefing.
“And as the war has changed, we have changed, our policies have adapted. And you’ve seen that play out in Kharkov and it could expand into other areas. But right now, we have not authorized the use of ATACMS for deep strike capabilities within Russia,” she stressed.
US President Joe Biden told a news conference after the NATO summit in Washington that he sees no reason to give Kiev permission to use US weapons to strike Moscow or other Russian regions within the same range.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on May 28 that the selection of targets and flight assignments for modern strike systems are made remotely or automatically, “without the presence of Ukrainian servicemen.” This is done by those who produce and supply these systems to Ukraine, he pointed out. Putin warned that NATO countries should “realize what they are playing with.” Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev emphasized on May 31 that all long-range weapons delivered to Ukraine are already “directly controlled by NATO servicemen” and that such actions could be a pretext for retaliatory strikes.
Where are they going to land?
It’s not for Jake Sullivan to say whether F-16s will be based in Ukraine. America doesn’t control Ukraine Russia does, and Russia says there’ll be no F-16s based in Ukraine. Now, trying to land them in Ukraine, that’s a different story, but then it depends on what Russia does with them and where as to whether this thing kicks off badly. If it does we may all lose but America and the west definitely aren’t going to win.
The West is at War against Russia, has supplied billions of pounds/dollars worth of weaponry and ‘training’ in a permanent ‘defence of Ukraine’ that never resolves itself, hundreds of thousands have been and will be continue to be slaughtered after NATO convened and announced publically that it will sustain the War in perpetuity, signatory nations have commited further billions to that goal – meanwhile, Russia, the UN and the EU are simultaneously co-operating at the highest level on Globalist ‘Sustainability Goals’ :-
https://open.substack.com/pub/edwardslavsquat/p/is-russia-becoming-too-sustainable?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=42llbv
Gaza has shown to the world :
BOMBER PILOTS ARE THE MOST DESPEAKABLE
COWARDLY SCUM ON EARTH + SHOULD BE
CLUBBED TO DEATH BY THEIR OWN CITIZENS !
Putin’s remark about them burning like all the other equipment is the best bit
is lewis a putintard?