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Poland would like to deliver more fighter jets to Ukraine, but Germany must agree to this. A decision should be made today.
Poland has received approval from the federal government for a delivery of MiG-29 fighter aircraft applied to Ukraine. The German Press Agency learned this from government circles. Accordingly, the federal government received a corresponding letter. The fighter jets of Soviet design come from old GDR stocks that Germany had given to Poland.
In March, Poland announced the delivery of MiG-29 fighter jets to the Ukraine announced to support the country in the fight against Russia. Initially, however, no aircraft from former GDR stocks were delivered – which is now likely to change.
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Fighter jet delivery: Federal government wants to decide today
In 2002, Germany sold 23 MiG-29 fighter jets to Poland, which the Bundeswehr had taken over from the GDR’s National People’s Army (NVA). The security advisor to Polish President Andrzej Duda, Jacek Siewiera, said at the end of March that the Polish Air Force still has about a dozen of them today. The background to the request to Berlin is that the sales contracts for armaments from Germany usually state that the federal government agree to a possible later disclosure.
The federal government announced that it would make the decision on approval this Thursday. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) said this on the sidelines of a visit to German soldiers in West African Mali.
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Poland has already delivered eight fighter jets to Ukraine
Poland President 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 Zelensky 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.
Other MiG-29s remained in service with the Polish ones for the time being armed forcessaid Duda. Only if they are successively replaced by modern fighter jets, which Poland has already ordered in South Korea and the USA, could these machines also be left to Ukraine. In addition to Poland, Slovakia has already delivered four MiG-29s to Kiev. (csr/dpa)
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