“The administration of US President Joe Biden allowed the sending of American military contractors to Ukraine for maintenance and repair of equipment provided by the Armed Forces. Source: with reference to an anonymous US official, Reuters and CNN reported, “Europeyska Pravda” writes. Details: The decision regarding the work of contractors in Ukraine was adopted by the White House at the beginning of November, before the presidential elections in the USA.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: with reference to an anonymous US official, Reuters and CNN reported, “European Truth” writes
Details: The decision regarding the work of contractors in Ukraine was made by the White House at the beginning of November, before the presidential elections in the USA. It would allow the Pentagon to award contracts to US companies to work in Ukraine – for the first time since a full-scale Russian invasion in 2022.
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The Biden administration hopes that this will speed up the maintenance and repair of weapons systems used by the Ukrainian military, Reuters notes.
CNN clarifies that the weapons systems that will be serviced by US contractors include F-16 fighter jets and Patriot air defense systems.
The channel’s interlocutors estimate that there will be from several dozen to several hundred American contractors in Ukraine, and for security reasons, they will be located in regions far from the contact line.
Until now, due to the reluctance to put US citizens in Ukraine at risk, American contractors could not go to the country, so the damaged equipment had to be taken to neighboring countries – for example, Poland or Romania.
It should be noted that there was talk of lifting the ban on the work of American Pentagon contractors in Ukraine as early as the summer of 2024, but then this idea was eventually abandoned.