Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday that his country is ready to provide its MiG fighter jets to Ukraine if the US leads a broad coalition to transfer the planes to the war-torn country.
“Today we can talk about moving our MiG [jets] as part of a broader coalition, and we are ready for that,” Morawiecki said, according to a reuters Report from Warsaw. “Poland can only be part of a much larger alliance here, an alliance with the United States as a leader,” he said.
The prime minister’s comments came a day after Polish President Andrzej Duda said in an interview sky News Modern fighter jets should be sent to Ukraine in due course to help defend Kiev from Russian invasion.
“They will also need modern aircraft, fighter jets in the future. Duda told the news outlet that anything that would allow them to have a technological upper hand over the Russian armed forces is valuable right now.
The Polish president also said that older, Soviet-era Polish MiG-29 fighters could be sent first, as these are aircraft that Ukrainian pilots can operate, given that they already have such types. Blow up equipment.
Duda said, “So donating that equipment to Ukraine first would already be providing support to Ukraine because they would be countering the Russians to some extent.”
Duda’s statement comes less than a week after his Signal Poland may not be able to deliver Western fighter jets to Ukraine, given that its country has fewer than 50 jets.