was not tenable. our north america correspondent duncan kennedyjoins us now from washington. asa plan, as a plan, it is interesting. how was this actually going to work, though? fix, how was this actually going to work, though? how was this actually going to work, though? a few days ago the ukrainians work, though? a few days ago the ukrainians were work, though? a few days ago the ukrainians were looking i the ukrainians were looking around for more aircraft to bolster their air force and also be able to attack russian forces on the ground so when searching for aircraft, they asked poland to get hold of these mig 29 jets, asked poland to get hold of these mig 29jets, russian these mig 29 jets, russian built jets these mig 29jets, russian built jets actually, these mig 29jets, russian builtjets actually, in the region of maybe 20 or 30 of these jets and this deal seemed to be formulating, it seemed like the poles were ready to hand these jets over the ukrainians although nobody r
in germany. these are mig 29jets on combat drills at an airbase in poland. poland had said it intended to send its jets to the ramstein air base in germany and put them at the disposal of the united states urging other nato members to follow suit. but the us says it wasn t consulted, and that the plan would raise serious concerns for nato. duncan kennedy has more from washington. 20 or 30 mig 29jets appeared to be part of a deal that poland was offering to send to ukraine. no details are worked out as to how those planes are going to get to ukraine. but the whole deal had, initially, the backing of the americans, the secretary of state, antony blinken, was saying that if poland can get these jets to ukraine, then america would backfill the polish aircraft with new american planes. but then over the past day or so, the poles seem to have got a bit of cold feet about this, perhaps because they felt intimidated by what russia might do by way of retaliation. so, yesterday it came up with t