President Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the transfer of F-16 aircraft to Ukraine would be a “very serious decision” that “would not be easy to take” and stressed that it would have to be taken jointly by allies.
Jets for Ukraine
On Saturday, the BBC published an excerpt from an interview the Polish president gave in Warsaw next week following his visit to Britain. In it, he explained that sending F-16 jets through Poland would be a “serious problem” because “we don’t have enough of them … and we would need many more”. The president explained that there are less than 50 aircraft of this type in the Polish Air Force.
The Polish president added that fighter planes like the F-16 “require very serious maintenance”, so “it is not enough to just send a few planes”.
Andrzej Duda also noted that any decision to deliver the jets should be a “joint decision” by Ukraine’s allies, not one that can be made by a single country. He also stressed that “arms must be supplied to Ukraine all the time … it needs armaments.”
The full interview with President Duda for the BBC will be broadcast on Sunday morning.
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Source: wPolityce