The German government has authorized Poland to supply Soviet-designed fighter jets to Ukraine. This was announced by the Ministry of Defense in Berlin on Thursday. Poland wants to pass on five MiG-29 jets from the old GDR stock it had taken over from Germany.
Poland had requested the relevant approval from the German government. In March, Poland announced the delivery of MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine to help the country fight the Russian onslaught. Initially, however, no machines were delivered from former GDR stocks, that is now changing.
Germany had to agree to the deal
In 2002, Germany sold 23 MiG-29 fighter jets to Poland, which had acquired the Bundeswehr from the GDR’s National People’s Army (NVA). Polish President Andrzej Duda’s security adviser, Jacek Siewiera, said in late March that the Polish Air Force still has a dozen of them today. The sales contracts for armaments from Germany usually stipulate that the German government must agree to any subsequent transfer.
Duda said last week that his country had already delivered eight MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine. Four of the machines had been handed over to the Kiev government “in recent months”, he said after a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Warsaw. In the neighboring country, four more MiG-29s were delivered “recently”. In addition, six MiG-29s are currently being prepared for delivery.
The rest will remain in Poland for the time being
Other MiG-29s remained in service with the Polish armed forces for the time being, Duda said. Only if they are successively replaced by modern fighter jets, which Poland has already ordered in South Korea and the US, can these machines also be left to Ukraine. In addition to Poland, Slovakia has already delivered four MiG-29s to Kiev.
Source: Krone
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