The United States and its allies are considering providing the Ukrainian military with new fighter jets as Russia's war stretches into its sixth month.
Gen. Charles Brown, chief of staff of the Air Force, said during the Aspen Security Forum on Wednesday that the Pentagon could come up with a number of different options if it decides to move forward.
The Biden administration previously squashed a proposal to transfer old Polish fighter jets to Ukraine and replace the ones Poland would be giving up. Then-Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the time that the intelligence community was concerned that the proposal could be"mistaken as escalatory and could result in significant Russian reaction that might increase the prospects of a military escalation with NATO.”
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’s Brad Bowman told the Washington Examiner that the calculation in training Ukrainian service members has changed since the beginning of the war.
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