(Washington) Joe Biden on Monday opposed a categorical refusal to the idea of sending American fighter planes of the F-16 type to Ukraine.
“No”, said the American president when a journalist questioned him at the White House on the possibility of providing the devices demanded by the Ukrainian leaders.
Westerners have just taken a step forward in military aid to Ukraine, after Germany and the United States announced the sending of tanks.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling for even greater assistance, including the delivery of long-range missiles and combat aircraft.
Berlin has already rejected this idea outright, while French President Emmanuel Macron has cautiously considered that “by definition, nothing [n’était] excluded”, while assuring that the Ukrainians had not made him a request to this effect to date.
As February 24 approaches, which will mark one year since the invasion of Ukraine, Joe Biden did not want to say if he would travel to Europe on this occasion.
But he assured that he would go, without specifying a date, to Poland, a country which plays a key role in the response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
“I’m going to Poland, but I don’t know when,” he told reporters, returning to Washington after a short trip to the city of Baltimore (Maryland, east).