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UK backs Poland to supply fighter jets to Ukraine

The United Kingdom on Tuesday said it would support Poland if it eventually decides to supply combat aircraft to Ukraine.

• March 8, 2022
In this photo released by Japan Air Self Defense Force, U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers, top, fly with a Japan Air Self Defense Force F-2 fighter jet over Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, just south of the Korean Peninsula, during a Japan-U.S. joint exercise Sunday, July 30, 2017. Japan’s Defense Ministry reported the U.S. supersonic bombers flown from the Anderson Air Force Base in Guam conducted a joint exercise with South Korean Air Force over the Korean Peninsula later in the day. The U.S. Pacific Air Forces said in a statement that the mission was a response to consecutive intercontinental ballistic missile tests by North Korea this month. (Japan Air Self Defense Force via AP)

The United Kingdom on Tuesday said it would support Poland if it eventually decides to supply combat aircraft to Ukraine.

UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace warned that the move could have direct consequences for Warsaw.

“Poland will understand that the choices it makes will not only directly help Ukraine, which is a good thing but also may bring them into a direct line of fire from countries such as Russia or Belarus,” he said.

As a fellow NATO member, he added that the UK would support the Poles and whatever choice they make.

Mr Wallace stressed that it is a huge responsibility on the shoulders of the president of Poland and its defence minister.

“They will have to calibrate that,” he said.

(Sputnik/NAN)

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