Interfax-Ukraine
April 18, 2022

Ukraine won’t receive military assistance from Moldova

[Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita] declined to answer a direct question from a journalist as to whether Kyiv has actually asked Chisinau to transfer the fighters.

A number of Ukrainian media outlets reported on Sunday that Kyiv had asked Chisinau to sell or give it the MiG-29 fighters in its possession but that the request was declined.

The Moldovan Defense Ministry has owned six MiG-29 fighters since Soviet time. They underwent a major upgrade in Belarus in the late 1990s. They have not been flown since then, and therefore, there is no accurate information as to their current technical condition.