The Canadian Global News and the American media PBS reported that, The United States is neither preventing, blocking, or discouraging Poland from sending Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine. This was stated at a regular briefing by the White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
“We are working with Poland on this issue and we are consulting with our other NATO allies on this issue. This is a sovereign decision that Poland will have to make. We have no objection to Poland handing over planes to Ukraine,” Psaki said.
However, there are a number of difficult practical issues concerning how this equipment can be delivered to Ukraine, where the planes will take off from, where they will land and if the planes will take off from an air base in Poland, which is also an air base, she added. NATO, whether this will be a threatening circumstance.
“Poland is a sovereign country, they make their own decisions. Things are not as easy as just being able to move planes,” Psaki added.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. military, along with other ministries, was discussing whether the United States could provide its allies, such as Poland, with new planes in exchange for old Soviet ones that could be sent to Ukraine.
Kirby said no decision has been made in the United States so far. No decision has been made even on the Polish side, he added.