The National Security Council has rejected a military call to send American civilians to Ukraine to help maintain F-16 jet fighters and other Western-supplied military equipment after the intelligence community raised concerns that Russia could target the contractors, according to U.S. officials.
The Biden administration has been involved in a debate about the contractors since the Ukraine-Russia war began, but with the first six out of a promised 80 F-16 jets arriving in Ukraine, the argument has become more urgent, reports The Wall Street Journal Friday.
The administration hopes European countries will take on the maintenance of the fighter jets, but it has not ruled out sending Americans in to do the work, said Sean Savett, principal spokesman for the National Security Council.
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