Poland will deliver an initial batch of four its Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Thursday, ramping up pressure on other NATO allies to make similar commitments.
WARSAW — Poland will deliver an initial batch of four Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Thursday, ramping up pressure on other NATO allies to make similar commitments.The planes are in “full working order” and will be delivered in “the next few days,” Duda said at a news conference in Warsaw alongside his Czech counterpart, Petr Pavel. The delivery would mark the first time any of Ukraine’s NATO allies have delivered jets.
With both Russian and Ukrainian forces largely sticking to the ground to avoid each other’s formidable air defenses, many officials have said that the conflict will not be won in the skies.“They [already] have aircraft,” a senior U.S. defense official noted dryly in a recent interview, when asked if air cover was a necessary component of the “combined arms” maneuvers that the United States and others are currently training Ukrainian soldiers to use in dislodging Russian occupying forces.
“I am appealing to you to step up efforts to provide the air force of Ukraine with modern multipurpose fighters … which are capable of effectively protecting our country from Russian air terrorist strikes, as well as providing powerful air support to ground troops, for the liberation and de-occupation of Ukrainian territory,” Oleschuk said at an online NATO air chiefs symposium.
Kyiv began just weeks after Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24 last year, when it began to discuss transferring some of the Soviet-era MiGs it had purchased decades earlier from East Germany. The Biden administration agreed at the time, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying that it would give a “green light” to the transfer and was in “active discussions” with Poland to backfill Warsaw’s arsenal with F-16s.
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