More than 40 Senate Republicans call on the Biden administration to assist in the transfer Soviet-era aircraft to Ukraine.
The Defense Department has said such a handover would be a “high risk” step that could ratchet up tensions withIf Ukrainian pilots go to a NATO country to pick up fighter jets and then fly them back into contested Ukrainian airspace, where they might have to engage with Russian fighters, Western officials worry, Moscow could view the country they left from as a combatant and therefore fair game.
The senators, however, said in their letter that the explanation they received from the Pentagon about why the U.S. has declined Poland's plan isn't adequate. "That’s what they say they want," he added."They’re there. They have the eyes to determine what they want."
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