The U.S. has all but shut the door on arming Ukraine with fighter jets after the Pentagon rejected Poland's offer. The Pentagon noted that providing jets could be seen by Russia as an act of aggression and lead to an escalation of its attack.
U.S. officials on Wednesday all but shut the door on arming Ukraine with fighter jets, one day after the Pentagon rejected a Polish proposal that would have transferred MiG-29 aircraft to the Ukrainian government via an American airbase in Germany.
On Tuesday, Poland announced plans to send 28 Russian-made MiG jets to a U.S. and NATO base in Germany, aircraft that then could be transferred to Ukraine. That announcement from the Polish government followed a week of back-and-forth negotiation between Warsaw and Washington, though Tuesday’s announcement came as a surprise to U.S. officials.
“Poland’s proposal shows that there are some complexities that the issue presents when it comes to providing security assistance,” Blinken said in a news conference at the State Department. “We have to make sure that we’re doing it in the right way.” Blinken on Wednesday also dismissed calls for a NATO-enforced partial no-fly zone over Ukraine, an idea that hasBlinken stated that such enforcement — which would include introducing American pilots into Ukrainian airspace — “would almost certainly lead to direct conflict” between U.S. forces and Russia.
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