Polish President Andrzej Duda has announced that Warsaw will send Ukraine four Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets over the coming days.
“Firstly, literally within the next few days, we will hand over, as far as I remember, four aircraft to Ukraine in full working order,” Duda said at a news conference in Warsaw on Thursday. “The rest are being prepared, serviced.”
The announcement comes after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Tuesday that his country could be providing the aircraft to Kyiv “in the coming four to six weeks.” Duda told CNN last week that Poland was “ready” to provide Kyiv with the MiG-29 jets, adding that Ukrainian pilots would “be ready to use those planes instantly.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been asking the West for months for fighter jets to assist in the war, which began when Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded his country last February. The United States and the United Kingdom have so far ruled out sending advanced fighter jets to Ukraine.
This is a developing story and it will be updated when further information becomes available.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has announced that Warsaw will send Ukraine four Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets over the coming days.
