The United States has reassured Kyiv that it “has no objection” to the transfer of Polish fighter jets to Ukraine, the Ukrainian foreign minister said in a written statement to AFP.
“The United States has made it clear that it has no objection to the transfer of aircraft,” wrote Dmitry Kuleba, who met this morning with US President Joe Biden during a visit to Poland. “The ball is now in Poland’s court,” he added.
“We are looking at this issue in more detail in our discussions with our Polish counterparts to hear their position, but I want to be clear: Ukraine is in dire need of more fighters,” he said.
“We need them to find a balance in the sky and prevent the Russians from committing more war crimes, dropping more bombs on our cities and killing more civilians,” he said, adding that he hoped the issue “would resolved as soon as possible “.
Kuleba and Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov spoke this morning with the US President in Warsaw, on the sidelines of his meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
On March 8, Poland announced that it was “ready to transfer all Mig-29 aircraft to Rammstein (Germany) base without delay and free of charge and make them available to the US Government” for delivery to Ukraine. .
Washington had initially ruled that the offer was “unsustainable.” A day later, the Pentagon rejected the proposal.
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