The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland has informed through a official statement which will put disposition of the United States all its combat aircraftso that they can be used by Ukrainian soldiers in the conflict with Russia.
As reported ‘Europe Press‘, Poland has 28 MIG-29 fighter jetswhich will be made available to the North American country at the air base that has United States in the German town of Ramstein. “Poland asks the United States to provide us with used aircraft with the corresponding operational capabilities,” the Polish government stated in its official note.
On the other hand, the Executive of Mateusz Morawiecki has encouraged the rest of the member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to carry out a similar action. “The Polish government also asks other NATO allies, owners of MIG-29 aircraft, act on the same line“, sentenced the Polish Government.
Both the United States and the United Kingdom insisted to NATO member states on the possibility of making warplanes available to Ukraine to defend against the Russian offensive. In addition, also It has been a demand that the Ukrainian president has requested repeatedlyalong with his request to join the Atlantic Alliance and the European Union at the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine.
The United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenaffirmed that the member countries of the NATO had the approval of Washington to do so if they so wished, after the events of the last few days.
Change of mind four days later
The decision has been adopted days after Mateusz Morawiecki, Polish Prime Minister, anannounced last Friday that his country would not send planes to Ukraineand that nor would it make its air bases available to the Ukrainian troops. In this way, the Polish government wanted to deny a possible agreement with the United States on aid to make any type of military vehicle available to its neighboring country.
“We already offer significant help in many other areas“, Morawiecki came to assure. From Warsaw they pointed out last week that, had they acceded to Volodimir Zelenski’s requests, Poland would have entered fully into the conflict with Russia. The head of the Polish state, Andrzej, also spoke along the same lines. Doubt. “That would mean military interference in the Ukrainian conflict. We will not participate in this conflict, since NATO is not a party to this conflict,” Duda said.
In this way, Poland changes its version four days later of announcing that it would not provide military aid to its neighboring country.
Poland, the country that has received the most refugees
According to the data offered by the web portal ‘Data2‘, Poland is the country with the largest number of Ukrainian refugees who have fled their country due to the Russian invasion. Of the more than two million Ukrainian refugees, 1.2 million refugees are on Polish territory.