POZNAN, Poland — A Polish air force MiG-29 taxis in with parachute in tow after finishing a mission here. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. John E. Lasky)
Poland is ready to provide its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine if the United States leads a wider coalition for transfers of warplanes to the country, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on February 18, according to Reuters.
“Today we can talk about transferring our MiG [fighter jets] as part of a wider coalition, and we are ready for that,” Morawiecki said. “Poland can only be a part of a much larger coalition here, a coalition with the United States as a leader.”
The Polish Air Force operates 23 MiG-29A fighter jets, and another six UB trainers. Some of the Soviet-era fighter jets were bought from the Czech Republic and Germany after the end of the Cold War. However, non of them saw any significant upgrade.
Morawiecki’s remarks came just a day after Polish President Andrzej Duda said in an interview with Sky News that modern fighter jets should be sent to Ukraine.
“They’ll also need modern planes, fighter jets in the future. Everything that will allow them to have a technological upper hand over the Russian armed forces is valuable right now,” Duda told the news network.
The Polish president also said that Polish MiG-29 fighter jets could be sent earlier, as these are aircraft that Ukrainian pilots can operate, given this is already the sort of equipment they fly.
“So donating that equipment to Ukraine in the first place will already provide support to Ukraine because they will counterbalance the Russians to a certain degree,” Duda said.
Poland has been reportedly supplying the Ukrainian Air Force with spare parts and ammunition for its own MiG-29s.The country first expressed its willingness to supply its Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine in the early months of the Russian special military operation.
Efforts to re-equip the Ukrainian Air Force gained momentum recently. Earlier this month, Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger said that his country is ready to supply its ten upgraded MiG-29AS/UBS to Ukraine once Kiev has officially asked for the fighter jets.
Supplying Kiev with fighter jets will help keep the Ukrainian Air Force operational. However, the Russian Aerospace Forces will likely maintain the upper hand over the special military operation zone thanks to its strong capabilities and vast resources.
It’s flat out impossible to transfer those jets without dismantling first.
If they would take off from Poland and fly into Ukraine (no matter if Ukrainian or Polish pilots would fly them), that means Poland is a direct party of the conflict, I don’t think the fucktard Duda would risk that.
Well they have a poor reputation when it comes to smart?
Is sad beautiful aircraft like this will get shot down.
It’s better than have it in nazis’ hands.
But it is in the hands of the “Nazis of Ukraine.” (the Zelensky Dictatorship) who take their orders from the Biden Regime who’s only goal is to divide and conquer whoever gets in their way and they have been travelling to other countries starting little political fires, paving the way. Their “test drive” was to destroy their own country and its citizens. Mission Accomplished. Compared to this, The Russian “threat” is microscopic.
Yeah… that is why Poland is the best place to live in the EU. Good income/buying power, no woke ideology, fantastic landscape, central location in Europe, friendly society…
Poles build the best country to live in Europe – this is fact
On Germanistan EUSSR handouts you forgot to mention.
Russia would be waiting.
I agree that Poles are not the smartest and brightest of Europe, but this is way too risky.
I think that’s why Sleepy Joe flatly rejected the deliveries and most likely won’t allow the imbecile Duda to do it (he will arrive by tomorrow or day after tomorrow, if my memory is correct).
Poo from Pooland is doing diarrhea to get attention. Probably will never send them.
The problem for these shithole countries is that they are forgotten the moment there is no attention from CNN and agitprop. No CNN attention – no money for libtard causes. Ukraine is already like another Libya and Syria. Attention is leaving hohols since they did not show any wins in 12 months and counting. They are welcome to live between the concrete rocks.
POLAND IS part of the conflict from long time ago. time they get slapped
Just promise them part of Ukraine and throw in a piece of Czech territory and they’ll sit up and bark on command.
Of course Poland and NATO are a direct party of this war so why Russia dont do nothing about? Cause they are a pathetic army lead by Votka and wine, NATO should stop this bullshit in a weak
“It’s flat out impossible to transfer those jets without dismantling first.”
I just try to imagine how NATO tries to smuggle them to Ukraine. Maybe they will consult David Copperfield LOL the whole story is really crazy.
Every time I hear the name Duda I think of a Pole taking a crap, flinging it towards the Russians and it ends up smacking him back in the face. Must have to do with prevailing winds or something. Don’t they use poopy bags in Poland?
Duda is close to dudka – a simple music pipe, which is popular in villages, because it’s easy to make. Duda is primitive like dudka, he plays the music of a man who blows inside, just an instrument in hands of other people.
Duda would definitely risk that. Duda, like all other submissive countries, will bend to the will of the Biden Dictatorship and “OBEY” no matter what.
Who’s gonna fly them? conscripts? 85% of professional Ukrainian air force pilots are already dead.
NATO knows it that’s why they won’t send Western fighter aircraft that could turn the tide of the war.
Russia has known this was probably coming since General Wesley Moreland did a video about neocon plans to “take out” 7 countries in 5 years. They have been getting ready while US has been shopping for combat high heels.
the ghost of Kiev
His identical twin sister.
800 Ukrainian pilots are already training in the UK and Poland. During ww2 Polish pilots in Britain have just two weeks training – enough to kick hitler arse…
Those world war 2 prop planes aren’t a fraction as complicated to fly as a multi million dollar fighter jet.
You’re right, rotor/piston aircrafts used now as basic trainers. Next stage – turbo-jet subsonic trainers before training with supersonic fighters.
Mercenaries. Kiev offers $150000 a month. Some of them got killed before spending salary. Even “Geranium” is quite good in anti-air defense, this UAV destroyed 2 MiG-29 after collision in skies in attempt to intercept “Geranium”. 20 thousand dollars UAV against 20 million plane.
Polish, umbelieable as it is, are nazi supporters. After all they suffered in WWII.
Our jewish government is doing whatever jews do – killing goyim.
Yes six million Poles killed by the Nazis,Warsaw reduced to rubble,who do the Poles hate? not the Germans but the Russians,they are asking for trouble and before long they will get it by the bucket load.
The victims must stand together.
After all, innocent democratic Polish officers and innocent democratic German Nazis were both brutally killed by Sovjet Gulag missiles in precision strikes in WWII.
USSR is not Russia.
Wake up, the new Soviet menace is the USA. They fought the failed Commie project so hard that they have become more Communists than the Bolsheviks.
Russia never change. It is still ussr in full swing
That is very true, only I would argue that the neobolsheviks actually dismantled the very necessary McCarthyism that would have spared the world this timeline, and thus you could say you are correct in that aggressive “free speech” and free expression constitutionalism allowed those bolsheviks to use the american dream against itself.
You are correct, the political elements trying for power in the USA are the new bad guys.
They are trotskists who wish global revolution and one government for all, same as modern globalists. Stalin ordered to murder Trotskiy, because Stalin choose “building socialism in a separate country” instead global revolution where Russia should be a firewood, i.e. to be destroyed in a war against all neighbors in the same time. Trotskiy was sponsored by US bankers even before the revolution in Russia in 1917. He is dead now, but globalism still alive. United government of Earth is what we will get before the Armageddon as it written in the book of Revelation.
History repeats itself. Both Trotsky and Stalin were evil personalities. Battle of Armageddon was once between Egyptians and Hittites, then between Seleucids and Ptolemies, then between Crusaders and Muslims.
duda, morawiecki, kaczynski are not poles they are jews and islamic ukrainian’s tatars
These Poles have got American semen dripping out of their mouth. They’re not very bright people, they’re like white niggars with an IQ of 80.
Poles can’t call Karma a bitch because everything they receive from Russian kindness is fully deserved.
Prawdziwi Polacy Słowianie są za Rosją . Duda to marionetka jak cały nasz rząd
The Polish PM is a liar. Plain and simple. He knows perfectly well that nothing the west has beats any current Russian weapon.
These arseholes in power want everyone to think that Ukraine has a chance in hell of beating Russia. They want the western public to think that fighting Russia will be childs play.
This has been done before when telling those who took the Queen’s shilling that all the fighting would be over by Christmas.
It is a ponzi scheme. You run it to the max until there is not even a single cent left to squeeze. Libtard suckers always fall for scams no matter how dumb the scam is.
Does Poland want to get the next Russian target? Believe me it is no Russian soil so Putin has no problem to nuke the country very hard for its idiotism to back the enemy of Russia. Poland is non yet lost but if it is going on this way it will. Sure it will be lost.
First jet sent bomb its air bases.
Yes, of course it will be NATO pilots flying these things; as with F16s
Maybe the Polish gouvernement realise that they are already in two coalisions NATO and EU.
Unfortunately the Polish government (in Poland it is called “the polish speaking government” ) doesn’t realise much , they are not there to realise something or to rule and govern the country but to obey unconditionally. They are political zombies without own will. It’s frustrating on the one side but otherwise reassuring , because they can’t cause so much damage , as if they would act on their own.
The Polish government exists to polish Washington’s knobs. Nothing more, nothing less.
A good business for the Poles was buyers coming in droves to trade fairs to buy goods to take back to Kaliningrad, with some of the cargo sent to Russian destinations beyond. Poland screwed themselves out of that steady coin flow.
Poles screwing themselves is second only to screwing light bulbs as a national passtime.
No. The previous government was call ‘Polish speaking government’. Current president and Prime Minister are Polish patriots – yes, very close to USA but away from woke ideology, away from germany merkel and away from socialist EU. They are the people who will change the EU – with Italians, Swedes and other nation waking up!
You mean they are national conservatives and they are against Russia.
Obecny rząd polskojęzyczny to marionetki!!! Prawdziwi polacy my jesteśmy za Rosją. Zdemaskuj się żydowki pomiocie i odwal się od Polski!!! Sława Słowianom Sława Rosji
Polacy są za Rosją a rząd polskojęzyczny to marionetki USA
Ukraine will be in defense mode for the rest of the war and any attempt by them to go on the offensive will only result in more uke casualties. The ukes have almost no ability to launch more than paltry air sorties as their airbase infrastructure is a shambles… and most of their pilots are dead, captured, or have deserted or in hiding. Even at the beginning of the war the uke airforce was damn near useless and did not significantly impact the battle. Even if they got these planes they would meet the same fate at the hands of highly skilled and experienced Russian pilots and anti-aircraft missile battery operators.
I wonder how Russia would operate its airforce? Same way as the civilian? Half of civilian fleet is kept broken in hangars, hundreds of pilots jobless… and soon all the russian airplanes will be unable to operate…
Jets don’t matter as much in this conflict as anti air defenses make that a risk for either side, that’s why you see Russians launching aerial attacks from within their borders or at the periphery of any hazard. Ukraine has no such luxury as Russia in that regard.
So we won again. Not yet?! Are we waiting for the Ascension or what?
Nice Russian plane. Shoots well at targets. Excellent!
Excellent, more scrapyard stuff the Russian troops can practice on.
Guys, USA has cut the gas artery to Europe and you dream about a “coalition” with them!?
Better get a good relationship with your close neighbours than heat up a war designed to “FUCK EU!”.
What Poland has to gain from harming Russia!?
I hope the EU just floods Poland with migrants. Might raise the national IQ a point or ten.
😆 🤣 that’s right send your planes against the best air defences in the world.
Track where they land and destroy the airstrip!
Approved. You go track them.
The Polish government is just as sadist and despicable as the U.S. government.
Poles suffer from a very special kind of sadomasochistic syndrome. Freud identified it long ago while visiting a Polish insanetorium as part of his doctoral thesis.
No. Poland has endured much in the past. Just like Armenia.
still it’s for me the mystery where they want to land and then take off in Ukraine. If the jet starts in Poland , then shoots its missiles against Russians and lands in Poland again , the whole Polish airport will be the legitime target for the Russians and I have no doubts it will happen exactly this way. There was a warning about it ca. march 2022. And NATO has already clearified , that such actions would not trigger the art.5 , similar like Turkey’s actions against Syria ca. 2015 didn’t mean this art.5 of NATO. In this case Poland is not attacked but the aggressor itself who attacks.
That’s why Poland will do nothing on its own. It’s only the next try to bring NATO directly into the war , exactly stupid like the Ukrainian fakes and other experiments.
Much smoke about nothing.
Pooland is a tail that tries to wag the dog. Hohols had more success in that.
good analogy , I must save it
Tries to wag the dog by polishing its knob.
In this case, Poland would be doing it on its own, not with a NATO mandate.
Exactly like Turkey in Syria where the actions are not coordinated with NATO.
Zigtausende Tonnen wertvoller Schrott!
from Slovakia, you have 100 meters to the Ukrainian airport in Uzhhorod
“from Slovakia, you have 100 meters to the Ukrainian airport in Uzhhorod”…
that’s exactly 100 m too much , moreover I suppose the Russians have the coordinates of this airport and missiles with accuracy of 1 m.
And if not , you have just whistleblown it to them and the airport in Uzhorod is no more secret.
I thought Uzhhorod was where the Slovaks picked up whores and Uzhgorod was the airport.
I thought Slovaks were smarter than Czechs. How come after they seceded from Czechoslovakia that they have a hard on for Donbass seceding from Ukraine? Sounds pretty two faced to me.
Poland regime is pathetic it should stop.
Why? They’re good knob polishers. Ask Radoslobber Sikorski. He gives lessons to all the polysci grads at the Univ. of Coleslaw, then sends them off to the American embassy to get their first licks in..
There is another agenda going on that goes largely unnoticed I think. These old Soviet era weapons are deadly and effective. The new US weapons that are replacing them might be slightly more up to date but they are all using smart technology which means they cannot be used without US permission, they are all backdoored in obvious or less obvious ways. These old “dumb” weapons are more likely to do what their owners tell them while their replacements do only what the US allows them to. That is why NATO is so eagerly buying up any Soviet era stuff it can get hold of around the world, this is a long term plan to establish global domination.
Ukrainians need air freighters, not fighters. You can’t deliver much donated western military aid to buyers with a fighter jet.