Polish President Andrzej Duda has ruled out the possibility of sending fighter jets to the Ukrainian government without a prior agreement with its allies, the Polish leader said Sunday during an interview with the BBC.
The Polish president reiterated that sending fighter jets to stop the Russian invasion should be a joint decision between Poland and the rest of NATO members, all this in the framework of the requests of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, to get fighter jets to face Russian attacks.
As reported by the aforementioned media, Duda has stated that sending F-16 aircraft is a «very serious decision» that «is not easy to take» and makes it clear that he does not believe it will be possible to send fighter planes in large numbers from Poland, at least in the short term.
Nevertheless, President Duda has maintained his position of constantly arming Ukraine as a prerequisite for winning the war.
In the same vein, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki insisted Friday from Brussels that Poland will act only within the NATO framework: «We will not be the first to deliver fighters, but we will certainly also respond positively to this,» according to local media ‘The Warsaw Voice’.
However, the head of government emphasized that this decision would be taken under the condition that those countries which have a larger number of fighters, and more modern ones, would deliver them to Ukraine, stressing that Poland still has «an insufficient number of fighter planes».
As Ukraine’s neighbor, Poland has been one of President Zelenski’s closest allies, as well as a major supplier of weapons, including support for the delivery of battle tanks, and has provided housing for millions of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the war.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
