SFRC Chairman Menendez Presses Biden Administration to Facilitate European Allies’ Transfer of Warplanes to Ukraine
NEW JERSEY – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today is calling on the Biden administration to take whatever steps it deems necessary to expedite and support the immediate transfer of fighter aircraft from NATO and Eastern European countries to the government of Ukraine. The request follows a personal and sobering plea on Saturday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to U.S. lawmakers requesting Soviet-era fighter jets that the Ukrainian Air Force can immediately use to counter Putin’s ongoing and indiscriminate attacks on civilians. “It is vital to the security of Europe and the United States [...]
