President Joe Biden said on May 21 that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy personally assured him that Ukraine would not use Western-supplied F-16s in Russian territory.
“I have a flat assurance from Zelenskyy that they will not use [the F-16s] to go on and move into Russian geographic territory,” Biden said at a Sunday press conference in Japan. “But wherever Russian troops are within Ukraine in the area, they wouldn’t be able to do that.”
Biden met with Zelenskyy on Sunday at the Group of Seven (G-7) summit in Hiroshima, two days after the president told G-7 leaders that the United States would support an international effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter aircraft….