Poland ‘ready’ to hand over its Mig-29 jets to the United States: officials
Poland is ready to hand over its Mig-29 fighter jets to the United States, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday, under a reported scheme to see aircraft delivered to Ukraine.
“Poland … is ready to deliver its Mig-29 aircraft to Ramstein Air Force Base (Germany) and make them available to the United States free of charge and without delay,” said Warsaw. which under a reported deal will receive F-16 fighters as replacements for Soviet-era aircraft on which Ukrainian pilots are trained.
U.S. officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have downplayed the possibility of any NATO country supplying besieged Ukraine.
But speaking in Moldova on Sunday, Blinken confirmed that he was under active discussion.
“I can’t talk about chronology, but I can only say that we are looking at it very actively,” he told reporters.
“We are now actively looking at the issue of aircraft that Poland can provide to Ukraine and we are looking at how we can be able to fill in if Poland decides to supply those aircraft.”
The comments came a day after Blinken met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on the Polish-Ukrainian border and Kuleba pressed him for the plane.
Kuleba had said that “the highest demand we have is in fighter jets, attack aircraft, and air defense systems.”
“If we lose the skies, there will be a lot more blood on the ground,” he said after the meeting, with Blinken standing next to him.
While a significant part of Ukraine’s air force has remained intact since the start of the war on February 24, both Ukraine and Russia have suffered significant losses and none of them control space. over the country.
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