Deutsche Welle
March 16, 2023

Poland to transfer MiG-29 jets to Ukraine within days

Polish President Andrzej Duda said the nation is set to hand over Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine in coming days.

“In the coming days we will first transfer, if I remember correctly, four fully operational planes to Ukraine,” Duda told a news conference in Warsaw.

Duda said that Poland’s air force would replace the planes it gives to Kyiv with South Korean-made FA-50 jets and American-made F-35s.

The transfer would make Poland the first NATO member to have delivered the fighter jets, as Kyiv appeals for warplanes to fight Russian forces.

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Slovakia has declared readiness to provide its MiG-29 planes to Kyiv too.