Poland to send MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine within days
The Polish Air Force would replace the jets it gives to Kyiv with KAI-made FA-50 jets and Lockheed Martin F-35s. (Photo: Poland in NATO)
Poland has pledged to deliver four MiG-29 jets to Ukraine in full working order, becoming the first NATO member to supply fighters to Ukraine. The Polish Air Force will replace them with FA-50 and F-35 jets.
Poland will hand over four MiG-29 air superiority fighters to Ukraine in ‘full working order', President Andrzej Duda said on 16 March during a press briefing.
He added that the rest of the country’s MiG-29s are being serviced and will be available to Ukraine in the future.
Duda said the Polish Air Force would replace the jets it gives to Kyiv with KAI-made FA-50 jets and Lockheed Martin F-35s.
‘Our security will not suffer,’ said government spokesman Piotr Muller. ‘We will keep the Russian front from our borders at all times.’
This will mark Poland as the first NATO member
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