Poland to Make MiG-29 Combat Jets Available to U.S.
WARSAW—-Poland said it would make its MiG-29 combat jets available to the U.S. after days of talks about how to get such planes into the hands of Ukraine.
The Polish government on Tuesday said the planes “are ready to deploy—immediately and free of charge.” The aircraft would be flown to the American Ramstein air base in Germany, where they would be at the disposal of the U.S., Poland’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
The Polish government called on other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with MiG-29s in their inventory to follow its lead and asked the U.S. to provide Poland with used combat planes to replenish the capability lost by relinquishing the MiGs.
(More to come.)
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