U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a CNN Town Hall on Thursday that F-16 fighter jets are not the primary tool needed for the current fight in Ukraine against Russia.
Sullivan said Ukraine is preparing a major counteroffensive.
“From our perspective, F-16s are not the key capability for that offensive,” he said. “It is the stuff that we are moving rapidly to the front lines now.”
Sullivan went on to say that “F-16s are not a question for the short-term fight. F-16s are a question for the long-term defense of Ukraine, and that’s a conversation that President Biden and President Zelenskyy had.”…}