GOP blasts Biden for refusing Ukraine F-16 fighter jets: ‘Real blunder’

Republican congressional lawmakers on Sunday blasted President Biden for ​refusing to provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine — with one GOP senator calling the administration’s delay in sending military aid to the war-torn country a “real blunder.”

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Ala.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he believes Biden’s botched military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 “emboldened” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to invade his eastern neighbor in February 2022.

He urged the administration to fully support Ukraine short of deploying US troops on the ground.

But Sullivan said he was dismayed by how the Biden White House has “slow-rolled critical military weapons systems” like missile defense batteries, tanks and armored equipment.