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The New York Times revealed that Republicans in Congress have questioned senior Pentagon officials about tens of billions of dollars sent as military and other aid to the Kiev regime, casting doubt on the future spending process pledged by the Joe Biden administration in Ukraine.
The newspaper pointed out that the debates in Congress yesterday highlighted the extent of reluctance to continue the United States' support for the Kiev regime, and the growing concerns about the high cost of sending weapons to Ukraine, noting that the inflection point of financing could come as early as this summer, that is, months earlier than expected. In the previous.
In one of the aforementioned interrogations, Republican Representative Mike Garcia indicated that if Kiev started buying American weapons instead of getting them for free, this would make a big difference for American taxpayers to support his opinion and help
US Secretary of Defense for International Affairs Celeste Wallander said that Ukraine should start paying for US weapons that are being sent to it.
In the context of Washington's continued pumping of weapons of all kinds into Ukraine, Chairman of the Armed Forces Committee in the US House of Representatives, Adam Smith, declared that the possibility of deploying F-16s in Ukraine is a "misuse of resources," and that it will have to "struggle to survive on the battlefield."
Smith added, "The transfer of these fighters to Kiev is not a reasonable use of resources. We need not only to train pilots, but also to train technicians, and we need airports that can accommodate the F-16, as well as spare parts."
Smith indicated that in the best case, the United States will be able to transfer a few of these combat-ready fighters within a year or at least 8 months, if Washington insists on that.
And US Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl said earlier: that even if Kiev needed combat aircraft in the short term, the United States would not be able to transfer this type of weapon.
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