{"id":551506,"date":"2023-02-01T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=551506"},"modified":"2023-02-01T09:44:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:14:06","slug":"us-wont-provide-f-16s-to-ukraine-says-us-president-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-wont-provide-f-16s-to-ukraine-says-us-president-joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"US won&#8217;t provide F-16s to Ukraine, says US President Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will not provide the F-16 fighter jets that Ukraine has sought in its battle against Russia, President Joe Biden said, as Russian forces claimed a series of incremental gains in the country\u2019s east.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the United States would provide the jets, Biden told reporters at the White House on Monday, \u201cNo.\u201d Ukraine planned to push for Western fourth-generation fighter jets such as the F-16 after securing supplies of main battle tanks last week, an adviser to Ukraine&#8217;s defence minister said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next big hurdle will now be the fighter jets,\u201d Yuriy Sak, who advises Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, told Reuters then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will not provide the F-16 fighter jets that Ukraine has sought in its battle against Russia, President Joe Biden said, as Russian forces claimed a series of incremental gains in the country\u2019s east. Asked if the United States would provide the jets, Biden told reporters at the White House on Monday, \u201cNo.\u201d Ukraine planned to push for Western fourth-generation fighter jets such as the F-16 after securing supplies of main battle tanks last week, an adviser to Ukraine&#8217;s defence minister said on Friday. \u201cThe next big hurdle will now be the fighter jets,\u201d Yuriy Sak, who advises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}