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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo, EU countries aren't sending fighter jets to Ukraine
https://news.yahoo.com/no-eu-countries-aren-t-233404318.htmlNATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that European Union members will not lend fighter jets to the war in Ukraine, after days of mixed messages from officials across Europe.
NATO allies provide different types of military support: material, anti-tank weapons, air defense systems and other types of military equipment for Ukraine, humanitarian aid and also financial support. But NATO is not to be part of the conflict, he said in a joint appearance with Polish President Andrzej Duda at the countrys Łask Air Base. The alliance is not going to send the troops into Ukraine or move planes into Ukrainian airspace, Stoltenberg added.
Sending jets into Ukrainian airspace ones similar enough to Ukraines MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-27 Flanker fighters would amount to military interference in Russias invasion of the neighboring country, Duda added. Critics of the plan have suggested following through would make targets of Poland and other countries who could potentially donate aircraft to the cause. Kevin Nieberg, a spokesperson for NATOs Allied Air Command, declined to confirm the claims of jets on loan on Monday. The U.S. Air Force had no plans so far to send its own fighters to fill in for any NATO jets offered to Ukraine, he added.
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A dizzying back-and-forth has unfolded on social media and in the press since Sunday, when Alexandre Krauss, a senior adviser to the EU Parliament, tweeted that European jets would arrive in Ukraine within an hour. That tweet is now deleted.
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No, EU countries aren't sending fighter jets to Ukraine (Original Post)
Celerity
Mar 2022
OP
No idea, is there a 'Warmart' platform for selling functional, working fighter jets?
Celerity
Mar 2022
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msongs
(67,193 posts)1. whaat if the ukrainians buy them on the open market nt
Celerity
(42,645 posts)2. No idea, is there a 'Warmart' platform for selling functional, working fighter jets?
world wide wally
(21,718 posts)3. Declare the no fly zone!
If Russia violates it, they are to blame and we enforce it.
If Russia does not violate it, there is no problem.
Is there?
Celerity
(42,645 posts)4. WWIII probabilities say not a chance that will occur.
Declare the no fly zone!