Polish President Andrzej Duda said in a statement in Reykjavik that Poland has delivered almost all of its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, but is not ready to deliver F-16 fighter jets. TASS.
“We have delivered almost all of our MiG-29s that Ukraine has requested since the beginning of the conflict. <…> “The number of F-16s we have does not allow us to talk about the transfer of any of them to Ukraine today,” he said.
According to the Polish leader, Warsaw provided billions of dollars in military aid to Kiev and is among the top three countries in support of Ukraine.
Former Adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yuriy Sak declarationUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants the possible delivery of F-16 warplanes to Kiev to be one of the main topics at the G7 summit in Hiroshima and at the NATO heads of state meeting in Lithuania in July. According to him, the country needs about 40-50 such aircraft, since at the moment Ukraine has “nothing to stop” Russian planes.
Zelensky at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin declarationThat Ukraine is working to create a “coalition of fighters”.