2023-08-30 08:40:03
By Maurin Picard
Published on 08/28/2023 at 19:57, Updated 58 minutes ago
US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at the NATO summit in Vilnius (Lithuania) on July 12. Paul Ellis/AP
ANALYSIS – For the first time, after eighteen months of war, a poll indicates that a small majority of public opinion is against a new financial envelope.
New York
Andrii Pilschykov, “Juice” by his nom de guerre, will not see the F-16s decorated with the Ukrainian trident. This MiG-29 fighter pilot was killed on August 24 in a mid-air collision. His ejection seat functioned correctly, but he did not survive his injuries. Slender silhouette and angular face devoured by a square beard, perfect English speaker, “Juice” had played a decisive role in Washington’s shift in favor of the delivery of this fighter-bomber to besieged Ukraine.
In June 2022, aided by military historian Adam Makos, he traveled to the federal capital to deliver a convincing plea to an assembly of Democratic and Republican senators, and encourage the Biden Administration to override its apprehensions about such a qualitative leap, considered too offensive, against the Russian aggressor. “After that, Senator Dan Sullivan (Alaskan Republican) contacted the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, the Chief of Staff almost weekly…
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