Poland is ready to supply MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine – but only within the framework of NATO, an adviser to the president has said.
It comes after the US rejected a proposal to provide Washington with Polish planes, reports Reuters.
“The USA does not want these planes to come to Ukraine from American bases,” Jakub Kumoch, an adviser to Andrzej Duda, told public broadcaster TVP Info. “Poland is ready to act, but only within the framework of the alliance, within the framework of NATO.”
Ukraine has asked western countries to provide fighter jets to respond to the Russian invasion. But yesterday, after Poland said it was ready to deploy all of its MIG-29 jets to Ramstein airbase in Germany for the US and urged other Nato members to do the same, the Pentagon dismissed the offer as not “tenable”.
The number of people who have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion has reached 2.1-2.2m people, the United Nation’s refugee agency said today.
The UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, said during a visit to Stockholm that rather than talking about which countries refugees will go to, “the time is now to try to help at the border”.
Grandi said Moldova, which is not in the EU, is especially vulnerable in the crisis.
