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U.S. Planning To Provide Additional Security Assistance To Ukraine, Pentagon Says

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, February 25th, 2022

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U.S. Planning To Provide Additional Security Assistance To Ukraine, Pentagon Says

Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby holds a press briefing at the Pentagon. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)

The U.S. is planning to provide additional security assistance to Ukraine, but is assessing how to best deliver any potential equipment now that airspace is contested following Russia’s invasion into the country. “The situation, right, is different in Ukraine than it was just a few days ago. So it would follow, I would think, that we’re going to have to look for other ways to do this. The airspace over Ukraine is contested. The Russians don’t have superiority of it.…

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