Poland will finally make available to the US Army all their MIG-29 fighter jets of which it has, about 28. It will do so “free” to be used by Ukrainian pilots in the conflict with Russia.
In a statement from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it has been explained that the fighters will put course “immediately” to the base that the United States available in the German town of Ramstein.
In exchange, he has asked Washington to provide them with “used aircraft with the corresponding operational capabilities.” “Poland is ready to immediately establish the conditions of purchase” of these replacement aircraft, which would be US F16 fighters, according to Alliance sources.
The foreign brief also encourages other NATO partners to follow the Polish example. The decision of this delivery by Poland is made at the expense of NATO, which already ruled out a week ago sending any type of combat aircraft to Ukraine to prevent the Alliance from being part of the conflict, as expressed by its Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg.
Rectification on providing combat aircraft
The decision comes just one day after the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, denied said shipment. “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.
A few days earlier, the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, had also rejected the sending of fighters to Ukraine, because, in his opinion, “that would be a military intervention in the conflict.”
Source: Lasexta
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