Poland has delivered the first MiG-29 fighters it had promised to Ukrainean official of the Polish presidency said today, following a similar announcement by Slovakia at the end of March.

“Some MiGs have already been sent, they serve Ukraine to defend the security of all of us,” Marcin Przydacz, an adviser to the Polish presidency, told private radio station RMF FM.

The Polish president Andrei Duda had announced in mid-March that four aircraft were to be delivered, clarifying that Poland has around 15 MiGs, which it had inherited in the 1990s from the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic.

Slovakia has since announced that it delivered the first four planes of this type to Ukraine on March 23. In total Bratislava had promised Kiev 13 MiG-29s.

Ukraine recently refused to confirm at French Agency the number of MiG-29s it has, but according to the World Air Forces 2023 report of the Flight Global organization that was made public at the end of last year, this country has 43 aircraft.

Kiev has repeatedly asked its Western allies to send it modern fighter-bombers in the hope of getting American F-16s.