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MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) An attempt to evacuate civilians from the besieged port of Mariupol was thrown into jeopardy by continued fighting Tuesday as conditions grew more desperate inside the city of 430,000, with corpses in the streets and hungry residents breaking into stores for food.
As Ukraine pleaded for more warplanes, Poland said it would give all of its MiG-29 fighter jets to the U.S., apparently agreeing to an arrangement that would allow them to be used by Ukraines military. Ukrainian pilots are trained to fly Soviet-era fighter jets.
Ukrainian officials said renewed Russian shelling and other risks endangered the effort to relieve an encircled Mariupol, where the sound of artillery fire was relentless and where thousands crammed into basements. Many were forced to get their water from streams or by melting snow.
Europes worst refugee crisis since World War II became even more severe, with U.N. officials reporting that 2 million people have now fled Ukraine.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-united-nations-evacuations-62fa232dcb9d6260fef0e9c7f5386f9a
WarGamer
(12,445 posts)Anything in the sky with a yellow and blue flag would be shot down ASAP.
Russian forces in Crimea and the Navy in the Black Sea... with heavy SAM capacity and air cover.
Those MiGs will be better utilized in Western Ukraine and POSSIBLY (but very risky) over Kiev, although Kiev is well covered by Anti-Air assets also.
WA-03 Democrat
(3,050 posts)pick one
https://www.naval-technology.com/features/us-navy-drones/
Have a secure link with a Urkranian national "controling" it. Take the ports and fuck you Russian Warship.