According to the Russian Television Station (RT) reported on the 9th, German Chancellor Scholz ruled out the possibility of providing fighter jets to Kiev on Wednesday. It was the second blow in hours against Ukrainian President Zelenskiy's request for support from Western countries and allies.
Screenshot of the Russian RT website report
Speaking at a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Scholz said, "We have provided a wide variety of military supplies ... We have provided you with the weapons that we have promised you, but we must also think very carefully about what exactly we are going to do, and military aircraft are definitely not part of it. ”
German Chancellor Scholz Foreign media infographic
Hours before Scholz refused to supply fighter jets to Ukraine, the United States rejected Poland's offer to transfer the country's MiG-29 fighter jets to Ramstein Air Base in Germany and then forward it to Ukraine, claiming that the proposal caused NATO "serious concerns." Pentagon spokesman Kirby called the proposal "untenable."
U.S. White House press secretary Psaki said at a news conference Wednesday that sending planes from U.S. bases to Ukraine is not in washington's and NATO's interest. "I think it's clear that you don't need to be a military expert to understand why it's not in our interest to have planes take off from A U.S. Air Force base and go to a disputed area in a country at war, it's not in our interest, it's not in NATO's interest," she said. ”
U.S. White House Press Secretary Psaki Image Source: The Associated Press
She noted that in order to transfer the aircraft from Poland to Ukraine by land, it had to be disassembled and reassembled, which needed to be done by experts of the relevant technical level.
Still, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy reiterated in a daily televised address on Wednesday that he had called on the international community to set up a "no-fly zone" over Ukraine, claiming that if Western leaders refused to do so, they would be responsible for a large-scale "humanitarian catastrophe." (Editor: HHJ)