Our security and defence editor HaynesDeborah explains what new jets would mean for the Ukraine conflict. Latest:
US President Joe Biden will travel to Poland this month to rally allies one year after the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Mr Biden will deliver a speech on how the US"will continue to stand with the people of Ukraine for as long as it takes", said the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre.
"If gas prices stay here there will be much less worry about inflation and interest rates rises. There's no more fear of an energy crisis.He said the Russian president had made a"massive miscalculation over who had the leverage... in the same way he miscalculated how Ukraine would fight back and the West would be united."
Despite reports that Russian forces have made small advances due to a renewed offensive, a former commanding US general in Europe has insisted that Ukraine could secure a relatively quick victory if the West provides it with fighter jets. Gen Hodges said he believed the the only"red line" for US involvement in Ukraine is"boots on the ground."
"They don't have the armoured forces, the ability to break through," he said, adding that the existing campaign was not going to change the"overall operational environment" in Ukraine. "We maintain close contact and communication with our Moldovan partners and Romanian allies," Mr Patel added.Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine has secured important understandings and"good signals" during his tour of European capitals - but that more work is needed to get the weapons his country needed.
Defence Minister Jaroslav Nad said the country no longer needed the jets and could either sell them or give them to Ukraine where the planes could help - but that no decision had been taken yet. Emmanuel Macron has said he is considering stripping Vladimir Putin of France's top honour.
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