The German government today approved the delivery of five MiG-29 fighter jets through Poland to Ukraine, according to the Defense Ministry in Germany. Poland had previously applied to the German government to supply Soviet-designed fighter jets to Ukraine.
A corresponding letter was received in Berlin today. It’s about jets from GDR old stock, which Germany had given to Poland and whose transfer Berlin therefore had to agree to.
More MiG-29s are being prepared
In 2002, Germany had sold 23 MiG-29 fighter jets to Poland, which the Bundeswehr had taken over from the GDR’s National People’s Army (NVA).
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said last week that his country had already delivered eight MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine. Four of the planes were given to Kiev “over the past few months,” he said after a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Warsaw.
Four more MiG-29s were “recently” delivered to the neighboring country attacked by Russia. In addition, six MiG-29s are currently being prepared for handover, Duda said.
