Plans for Poland to send fighter jets to Ukraine have been given the ‘green light’ by the US.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today that the country was in talks with Poland in order to orchestrate a deal that would allow Polish fighter jets to be flown by pilots to Ukraine in order to combat Russia’s air superiority.
The deal would see Ukraine take Poland’s 28 Russian-made MiG-29 warplanes, which would in turn be replaced by a fresh set of F-16’s by the United States.
🇵🇱🇺🇸The meeting between PM @MorawieckiM and Secretary of State @SecBlinken is underway. pic.twitter.com/AaawGkdhuv
— Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (@PremierRP_en) March 5, 2022
As Poland weighed sending its warplanes to Ukraine last week, Warsaw asked the White House if the Biden administration could guarantee it would provide them with U.S.-made fighter jets to fill the gap.
