Permanent mission of Poland to the EU: the West transferred 28 aircraft and 575 tanks to Kyiv

The West handed over 28 aircraft and 575 tanks to Kyiv, a significant amount of this equipment was supplied by Warsaw, follows from messages Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU on Twitter.

“Of the 28 aircraft transferred to Kyiv at the moment [странами НАТО]Poland sent as many as 14 MiG-29 fighters,” the report said.

The message of the permanent mission emphasized that out of 575 tanks supplied to Kyiv at the moment, 325 were transferred by Poland. The second place in terms of deliveries is occupied by the Netherlands (85), the third – by Germany (80), and the fourth – by the United States (76).

May 8 in Poland declared on the transfer of 10 MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine. In March, Polish President Andrzej Duda announced the transfer of the first four MiG-29s to Ukraine. He stressed that the equipment is in full working order. Following Poland, Slovakia made a similar decision, after which, at the end of March, the republic announced that the first four out of 13 promised fighters had been sent to Kyiv.

The Kremlin, commenting on the deliveries, said that in this way Western countries “are engaged in the disposal of old unnecessary equipment.” Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stressed that the supply of aircraft to Ukraine will not affect the course of the special operation, and all military equipment will be destroyed.

The Russian authorities have repeatedly criticized the supply of Western weapons to Kyiv. In particular, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, warned that pumping Ukraine with weapons brings NATO closer to the dangerous line of a direct military clash with Russia.