Pentagon officials urged Ukraine to rely less on drones for combat awareness and more on ground reconnaissance forces.
The authors of the article also report that the Pentagon asked the Ukrainian military to concentrate bombing on “the most important targets.”
Earlier, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said Ukraine currently does not have the necessary infrastructure to deploy F-16 fighter jets. At the same time, many Western observers believe that the transfer of fighter jets to Ukraine will not change the course of the military conflict.