“NATO is not part of the conflict”: NATO foreign ministers at special meeting on March 4 in Brussels
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NATO is scrupulously careful not to be dragged into a conflict with Russia – even though it is “painful” not to be able to help Ukraine anymore. Recent events show how narrow the line is.
ALast Sunday at 7 p.m., the command of the Ukrainian Air Force announced good news on its Facebook page: “Our partners are giving us the MiG-29 and Su-25! If necessary, they can rely on Polish airfields, from which Ukrainian pilots conduct combat missions.” Then the gifts were listed: 28 MiG-29 from Poland, 16 MiG-29 and 14 Su-25 from Bulgaria, 12 MiG-29 from the Slovakia. “Honour to Ukraine!” read the post. But it won’t come to that. It is true that the states mentioned actually own these Soviet fighter planes from the days of the Warsaw Pact. But they have made it clear that they will not go to the neighboring country.
The Bulgarian Prime Minister said that the country already does not have enough aircraft to control its own airspace. Bratislava and Warsaw also declined. “We are not sending fighter jets to Ukraine because that would lead to military intervention in the conflict in Ukraine,” Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday. “We are not taking part in this conflict. NATO has no intention of becoming part of the conflict.” To Duda’s left was a Polish fighter jet, in the hangar at Lask Air Force Base. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was standing on the right and nodded.
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