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War in Ukraine US green light for Poland to give fighter-bombers to Ukraine
Poland will not send fighter jets to Ukraine and will not allow Ukrainian pilots to use its airports.
That is Prime Minister
Mateusz Morawiecki
's response to the words of US Secretary
Anthony Blinken
, according to whom the United States and Poland are working in that direction.
Morawiecki thus denies a possible agreement with the United States for the delivery of fighters to the neighboring country to counteract the power of Russian aviation.
"We will not provide fighter jets to Ukraine and we will not make our airports available either
. We already provide significant assistance in many other areas," the prime minister said.
The Polish Head of State,
Andrzej Duda,
already ruled out that possibility last Tuesday, with the argument, shared by all the allies, that sending planes to Ukraine would pose a risk of war between NATO and Russia.
"We are not going to send any planes to Ukraine because that would mean military interference in the Ukrainian conflict.
We are not going to participate in this conflict
. NATO is not a party to this conflict. We are supporting Ukraine with humanitarian assistance, but there will be no Polish planes." in Ukrainian airspace," Duda told a NATO news conference.
Despite denials from Warsaw,
Blinken said on Sunday that his country was "actively working" on an agreement with Poland
to send warplanes to Ukraine.
"I can't talk about deadlines, but I can say that we are working on it very, very actively," he told reporters during a visit to Moldova.
"We are now actively dealing with the issue of aircraft that Poland could provide to Ukraine, and we will see how we can compensate if Poland decides to supply such aircraft," Blinken added, referring to the
MiG-29 and Su-25 warplanes.
from Soviet times
that are still part of the Polish fleet and with which Ukrainian pilots are familiar.
According to the US media, the compensation that Blinken would have put on the table to the Polish counterpart is the delivery of several US F-16 fighters.
The alleged negotiations between the United States and Poland were revealed after Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky asked US lawmakers for this help during a private video call.
Senate Republican Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell
said Zelensky called for facilitating the transfer of warplanes from Eastern European countries.
Acceding to Zelensky's request would mean entering into direct conflict with Russia
, which has already warned allies of the danger of sending fighters to Ukraine.
Russia would consider the Polish bases from which these planes departed as a legitimate target, dragging the entire NATO into an open war against the power with the largest number of nuclear weapons.
The United States knows this, so the alleged agreement with Poland announced by Blinken would be more aimed at appeasing US senators and congressmen who are calling for more action against Russia.
The Polish Government has reiterated its decision today through Twitter and has described all the information related to this supposed agreement as 'fake news'.
"Unfortunately,
wrong news is being spread
. Poland will not send its fighter jets to Ukraine or allow Ukrainian pilots to use Polish airports," the government spokesman's Twitter account read.
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