Poland will deliver an initial batch of four Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Thursday, ramping up pressure on other NATO allies to make similar commitments.
Poland will deliver an initial batch of four Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Thursday, ramping up pressure on other NATO allies to make similar commitments.
With both Russian and Ukrainian forces largely sticking to the ground to avoid each other’s formidable air defences, many officials have said that the conflict will not be won in the skies. But, he said, it was a potential “psychological tipping point” that could encourage Ukraine’s other supporters to follow up with additional aircraft.Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, urged NATO to create a new program with the slogan “Victory on earth is made in the skies”.
Poland and Slovakia, which has also said it is ready to send Soviet-era jets to Ukraine, have called on other countries to follow their lead as part of an international coalition.
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