HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 21 Delivery F-16 aircraft would not help Kiev in the situation with Artemivsk, US President Joe Biden said at a press conference in Hiroshima. necessary, for example, in the situation with Bakhmut (Ukrainian name of Artemovsk — ed.). They would not have entailed any additional consequences,» Biden said.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that as a result of the offensive actions of the Wagner assault detachments with the support of artillery and aviation of the «Southern» group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces, the liberation of Artemivsk has been completed.
The United States and its allies, as Ukrainian pilots are trained on the F-16, will decide in the coming months who will deliver these aircraft to Kiev and in what quantity, US National Security Assistant Jake Sullivan noted. As CNN previously reported, US President Joe Biden informed G7 leaders that the US would support Allied measures to train Ukrainian fighter pilots, including F-16s.