Pak Sahafat – The chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, Jake Reed, expressed doubts about the approval of Kiev’s request to receive US-made warplanes.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency’s report from the Defense News website; The Democratic senator did not approve an amendment to the House National Defense Authorization bill to allocate $100 million to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-15 and F-16 fighter jets.
He expressed doubts about the approval of this proposed clause in the Senate after the final bill was prepared in the Congress.
Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the president of Ukraine, has been asking for American-made F-15 and F-16 fighter planes since March.
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Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown said in July that Ukraine’s military should finally retire its Soviet-era aircraft and upgrade to modern systems coordinated with the U.S. military and its NATO allies.
Zelensky said on Wednesday that the country’s military forces have recaptured several towns in the Kharkiv region from Russian forces.
He added: “This week we have good news from Kharkiv region.” He added: “Now is not the right time to name the towns where the Ukrainian flag has been raised again.”
Parts of Kharkiv region were occupied by Russian forces since the beginning of the war on the 5th of March 2022. The city of the same name — Ukraine’s second largest — is regularly targeted by deadly bombings, but Russian forces have never fully captured it.
On February 21, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticizing the West’s indifference to Moscow’s security concerns, recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in the Donbass region, and three days after that, on Thursday, February 24, a military operation called “Special Operation” Khand, started against Ukraine. Since the fifth day of March 2022, at the same time as the beginning of the special military operations of Russia in Ukraine, Western countries led by the United States have imposed extensive sanctions against Moscow.