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War in Ukraine Poland offers all its MiG-29 fighters to the US in a plan to provide aircraft to Ukraine
The
Pentagon
does not see "sustainable" Poland's proposal to move all its MiG-29 fighter jets to Germany to make them available to the
United States
at the US base in
Ramstein
, on German territory.
The spokesman for the US Department of Defense
,
John
Kirby
, said in a statement on Tuesday that his country is consulting with its allies and partners on security assistance to
Ukraine
, given that the Polish initiative "shows some complexities."
"The prospect of warplanes 'at the disposal of the
US
government ' departing from a
US
/
NATO
base in
Germany
to fly over disputed
airspace over
Ukraine with
Russia
raises serious concerns for the entire alliance," he said. Kirby remarked.
According to the spokesman, it is not clear to the
US
that there is "a substantive justification" for this measure.
However, he assures that
Washington
will continue its consultations with
Poland
and
NATO
allies on this issue and "the complicated logistical challenges it presents."
The undersecretary for Political Affairs of the Department of State, Victoria Nuland
, also referred to this matter on Tuesday
, in an appearance before the
Committee on Foreign Relations of the US Senate
,
where
she assured that
Poland
has not coordinated with her country on this issue .
.
"I've been in a meeting where I should have heard something about that, right before what I think is a surprise move" by
Poland
, Nuland said.
Poland "prepared" to deliver its fighters
The Polish government announced on Tuesday its willingness to transfer all its Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jets to
Germany
to make them available to the
US
at the
Ramstein
base .
Foreign Minister
Zbigniew Rau
revealed in a message on his social networks that
Poland
is "prepared" to hand over its fighters, after Prime Minister
Mateusz Morawiecki
denied on Monday that
Warsaw
was going to directly transfer those fighter jets. to
Ukraine
.
In his message, the Polish minister did not specify whether the final destination of this weaponry would be the Ukrainian Air Force.
Kirby stresses that
Washington
has been in contact with the Polish Executive since the announcement, and has insisted that "the decision to transfer aircraft owned by
Poland
to
Ukraine
corresponds to the Polish Government."
The Russian invasion of
Ukraine
entered its thirteenth day on Tuesday, having caused the death or injury of 1,335 civilians, according to the latest count by the
UN
Office for Human Rights;
a figure that the
State Emergency Services of Ukraine
put at more than 2,000 civilian deaths.
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