Kirby said those could include surface-to-air missile batteries and shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.
Kirby said the Biden administration is talking with other countries about “alternative options” for supporting Ukraine’s most pressing defense needs two weeks into its war, especially more ground-based weapons to counter Russian tanks and aircraft in what has been largely a ground war.
However, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed the MiG transfer proposal with his Polish counterpart and explained why Washington found it untenable. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that in a phone call, Zelenskyy on Wednesday again asked urgently for the United States to provide warplanes, anti-aircraft missiles and other weaponry. He said Poland understands and “this is what we need now to emphasize again - the unity and cohesion of NATO. “Our American partners rejected this proposal, because they have come to the conclusion that it was too escalatory,” Magierowski told CNN. Marek Magierowski, Poland’s ambassador to the United States, indicated the Polish government had gotten the message. That was the arrangement the Pentagon turned aside. air base in Ramstein, Germany, from where they would somehow be flown to Ukraine. Poland then said it was prepared to hand over all 28 of its MiG-29 planes - but to NATO by flying them to the U.S. Panel scolds Wisconsin justice for remarks in Trump caseīut Poland wanted no part of that, concerned about involving itself too directly in conflict with Russia.
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