Poland’s president says his nation plans to offer Ukraine a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, turning into the primary NATO member nation to meet the Ukrainian authorities’s more and more pressing requests for warplanes.
President Andrzej Duda mentioned Thursday that Poland would hand over 4 of the Soviet-made warplanes within the coming days and the remaining should be checked and could be equipped later.
Duda didn’t say if different nations could be making the identical transfer, though Slovakia has mentioned it could ship its disused MiGs to Ukraine.
On Wednesday, Polish authorities spokesman Piotr Mueller mentioned another nations with MiGs additionally had pledged them to Kyiv, however he didn’t title them.
While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pleaded for western supporters to share fighter jets, NATO allies have expressed hesitancy.
Before Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine s had a number of dozen MiG-29s it inherited within the collapse of the Soviet Union, however it’s unclear what number of of them stay in service after greater than a 12 months of combating.
Duda made the announcement throughout a joint news convention in Warsaw with the president of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel.
Duda mentioned Poland’s air pressure would substitute the planes it offers to Ukraine with South Korea-made FA-50 fighters and American-made F-35 warplanes.
