Poland offered to transfer its fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets to the US in a complex plan to send the warplanes to Ukraine, but the proposal suffered a setback when the Pentagon declared the scheme untenable.
Under the proposal announced Tuesday by Warsaw, the Polish air force would hand its Russian-made MiGs to the US, which would then transfer the aircraft to Ukraine, whose pilots are trained to fly the fighter jets.
But a senior state department official said Washington had not been consulted on the plan before Warsaw publicly made the offer, and the Pentagon suggested it could pull Nato directly into a war with Russia.
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