Emily Rauhala

Jul 28, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Alex Horton |Emily Rauhala |Siobhan O'Grady

KYIV – Long-awaited F-16 fighter jets are set to be flying in Ukraine within weeks, but Ukrainian and Western officials now caution that the aircraft, once championed by Kyiv as a game changer, are unlikely to make an immediate impact on the battlefield, where Russia is slowly advancing. There are simply too few of the planes and too many Russian air defenses that can shoot them down.

Jul 28, 2024 | flipboard.com | Alex Horton |Emily Rauhala |Siobhan O'Grady

American and Canadian warplanes intercepted two Russian and two Chinese bombers in international airspace near the state of Alaska on Wednesday, the …

Jul 28, 2024 | cnas.org | Becca Wasser |Emily Rauhala |Alex Horton |Siobhan O'Grady

Some analysts are even more skeptical than Zelensky. Becca Wasser, an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, said the F-16s might be most potent as a psychological and morale boost for Ukrainians and a specter for Russian conscripts — in part because battlefield conditions have changed since last year when the decision to send the planes was announced. “We’ve seen this pretty routine pattern when it comes to Western military equipment for Ukraine,” she said.

Jul 27, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Alex Horton |Emily Rauhala

An F-16 fighter jet at Belgium's Melsbroek air base in May. (Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP/Getty Images)By Isabelle Khurshudyan, Alex Horton, Emily Rauhala and Siobhán O'GradyJuly 28, 2024 at 1:00 a.m. EDTKYIV — Long-awaited F-16 fighter jets are set to be flying in Ukraine within weeks, but Ukrainian and Western officials now caution that the aircraft, once championed by Kyiv as a game changer, are unlikely to make an immediate impact on the battlefield, where Russia is slowly advancing.

Jul 26, 2024 | msn.com | Victoria Bisset |Emily Rauhala

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