A senior U.S. defense official has pushed back on lawmakers' claims that U.S. aid is not getting to Ukraine quickly enough.
Gen. Tod Wolters, the head of U.S. European Command, was asked during multiple days of testimony on Capitol Hill about the speed with which U.S. military aid was getting to Ukrainian forces, which they said was slowed. The defense official pushed back on that notion during a Thursday briefing.
Later in the hearing, when Wilson’s comment was brought up by another lawmaker, Wolters explained that there are two centers with roughly 100 staffers that liaise with Ukrainian forces. The Biden administration recently agreed to provide $800 million to the Ukrainians. They announced the move on March 16, the executive order was signed the next day, and “the first delivery arrived on the 20th, so four days after the president signed it,” the official said.
Part of the issue has been America's role as a facilitator to other countries' military transfers to Ukraine. The United States held up a Polish plan that would've provided Ukrainian forces with MiG-29 jets though they would've been transferred from a U.S. military base in Europe because, in the Department of Defense's estimation, the deal was"high risk" amid concerns that Russia would've viewed the move as escalatory.
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