Andrzej Duda also warned that Vladimir Putin is trying to exhaust the West's support for Ukraine in his effort to defeat the country.
"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," he said.
But he said it cannot happen for some time, not least because Ukrainian pilots require training and logistical challenges must be overcome.Sky’s Deborah Haynes explains what new jets would mean for the Ukraine conflictOlder Soviet-era Polish MIG-29s could be sent earlier, he said. "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."said MIGs would be far more useful in the short term for the Ukrainian air force.
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