United States President Joe Biden is ready for dialogue on providing Ukraine with JASSM long-range missiles for F-16 fighters.
This is reported by Politico, citing two officials close to the White House administration and knowledgeable about this issue.
Transfer of JASSM to Ukraine — Biden's position
Readiness to transfer “air-to-ground” missiles
Readiness to transfer “air-to-ground” was heard in Biden's entourage against the backdrop of the successful advance of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.
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Such an operation caught dictator Vladimir Putin by surprise and he was forced to redirect troops from the battlefield in Ukraine.
As Bloomberg sources noted, the final decision on sending JASSM to Kyiv has not yet been made, but the administration is currently working out the complex details.
This includes a discussion of the transfer of sensitive technologies, since F-16 fighters will carry a missile weighing 1 ton with a warhead of 0.5 tons.
In the Pentagon, such talks in President Biden's entourage have not yet been comment.
— We are considering a number of options to meet Ukraine's security assistance needs, but we do not have information that we can provide regarding JASSM, — U.S. Defense Department spokesman Jeff Jurgensen told reporters.
