Poland will not send fighter jets or military pilots to Ukraine

Poland will not send fighter planes or pilots military to Ukraine. This was stated on Monday by the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, who denied questions from the press that the country is going to give the Ukrainian Air Force some of its Russian-made fighters in exchange for US F-16 aircraft. .

“Poland, in close cooperation and coordination with NATO, is trying to de-escalate,” he said, adding that “Poland and NATO are not at war with Russia.” “We will not provide combat aircraft to Ukraine nor will we make our airports available to you. We already offer significant help in many other areas,” Morawiecki said.

Last Tuesday, the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, already rejected the sending of fighters to Ukraine, because, as he said, “that would be a military intervention in the conflict”. Other members of the Polish Executive have assured this Monday that Warsaw is against taking this decision unilaterally.

The Deputy Minister of the Interior, Mariusz Kaminski, has pointed out “the decision on this type of aid must be made at the level of the whole of NATO. It should not be the case that one or another country helps alone“. For his part, the head of the National Security Office, Pawel Soloch, indicated in a television interview that “no decisions regarding fighters” and that at the moment Warsaw “does not plan to transfer them to Ukraine”, because a decision “must be made by the allies”.

Finally, Lieutenant General Waldemar Skrzypczak, former commander of the Polish Land Forces, assured on the radio that, in his opinion, “someone is interested in introducing information chaos, and in any case the delivery of this type of weapons would be done in secret“.

According to the Polish press, the Russian Defense Ministry considers that “countries that use their airports to supply Ukraine with combat aircraft can be considered participants in the conflict.”