Poland becomes the first NATO member country to fulfil the Ukrainian government's increasingly urgent requests for warplanes
Western nations remain unwilling to provide Ukraine with fighter jets, despite the clear advantage they would bring, because of a lingering fear that it will precipitate a widening of the conflict beyond Ukraine's borders.
as NATO countries entering the war by proxy.President Duda did not say if other countries would be making the same move, although Slovakia has said it would send its disused MiGs to Ukraine.It will hand over four older Soviet-era MiG-29s to begin with. The rest need to be checked and would be supplied later.
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