Poland offers all its MiG-29 fighters to the US in a plan to provide aircraft to Ukraine

• War in Ukraine US green light for Poland to give fighter-bombers to Ukraine

Poland has agreed to hand over all of its MiG-29 fighters to a US airbase

as part of a plan to provide planes to the Ukrainians and just 24 hours after the country's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki I would say the opposite.

In a statement, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that "the authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Government, are ready to deploy - immediately and free of charge - all their MiG-29 aircraft in Ramstein Air Base (Germany) and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America".

"At the same time, Poland asks the United States to

. Poland is ready to immediately establish the conditions for the purchase of the aircraft," the note added.

"The Polish government also asks other NATO allies - owners of MiG-29 aircraft - to act in the same direction," the statement said.

Germany has not reacted to the fact that the delivery of these MiG-29s is made at the US base in Ramstein, but the German Foreign Ministry has reported that its head, Annalena Baerbock, has had a telephone conversation with the secretary of American state, Antony Blinken, to discuss the latest developments in Ukraine.

There is no word yet on how many fighters Poland will deliver to the United States and when.

180 degree turn

The 180-degree turn given by the Government of Warsaw occurs a day after Morawiecki denied Blinken about the alleged exchange of fighters that both countries were negotiating with a view to providing Ukraine with fighter-bombers with which to counteract the power of Russian aviation. .

"We will not provide fighter jets to Ukraine and we will not make our airports available either.

," the prime minister declared.

The Polish Head of State, Andrzej Duda, also ruled out that possibility last Tuesday, with the argument, shared by all the allies, that

.

"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

," Duda told a NATO news conference.

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," Blinken 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

.

According to security and defense analyst Michael Clarke, former director general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), "the main thing, as far as NATO is concerned, is to get some aircraft to Ukraine that they can use and that Ukrainian pilots find a safe way to get the planes to Ukraine.

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