In spring 2022, Warsaw secretly delivered several of its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, despite the fact that the Polish government officially denies any such deals, reports Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. The planes were sent over by using a “combined” method, apparently meaning that they were delivered in a disassembled state, and declared as spare parts. “The fuselage and the wings are also spare parts,” Dziennik Gazeta Prawna wrote on Jan. 25, citing sources within the Polish government.
Last March, in the first months of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Washington rejected a plan to transfer Polish MiG-29 jets to Ukraine, stating the move was “too escalatory” and risked directly involving the U.S. or a NATO ally in the conflict, potentially triggering a direct confrontation with Russia.
