{"id":1356370,"date":"2022-03-03T08:53:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356370"},"modified":"2022-03-03T08:53:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:53:56","slug":"not-your-wingman-western-nations-deny-plans-to-provide-fighter-jets-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-your-wingman-western-nations-deny-plans-to-provide-fighter-jets-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Wingman: Western Nations Deny Plans to Provide Fighter Jets to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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<!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-536461442-e1646226293135-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Despite widely-reported claims that 70 fighter jets were being provided to Ukraine by EU member-states, Western powers have now denied any plans of giving combat aircraft to the embattled nation.<\/p>\n<p>The EU \u2014 alongside\u00a0Slovakia, Bulgaria and Poland \u2014 has seemingly denied the possibility of providing the Ukrainian airforce with combat aircraft.\u00a0This is despite initial widespread reporting that either the EU or a number of its members were actively in the process of providing fighter jets to the war-torn country, with the Ukrainian airforce even claiming that Poland would provide it with the use of its airports for \u201ccombat tasks\u201d if necessary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, POLITICO is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/28\/ukrainian-pilots-arrive-in-poland-to-pick-up-donated-fighter-jets-00012560\">reporting<\/a> that these plans seem to have fallen through, with Europe\u2019s\u00a0Josep Borrell Fontelles \u2014 who serves as the bloc\u2019s head of\u00a0Foreign Affairs and Security Policy \u2014 being reported to have back-tracked on previous comments regarding the provision of fighter aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ\/status\/1498044039219789829\">Multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/1498029493033881601\">publications<\/a> had previously reported that the EU was going to provide fighter aircraft to Ukraine as part of a package of military aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to supply \u2026 even fighter jets,\u201d POLITICO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-promise-to-supply-fighter-jets-to-ukraine-gets-grounded\/\">claims<\/a> Borrell Fontelles as saying during a press conference.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, the Foreign Affairs head has since been reported as back-tracking on the comments, saying that the EU couldn\u2019t afford to fund such ventures, and that aircraft would be donated \u201cbilaterally\u201d by EU nations instead.<\/p>\n<p>Even those bilateral arrangements also now appear to have now fallen through \u2014 if they ever even existed \u2014 with all three nations supposedly involved in supplying the fighters being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/28\/ukrainian-pilots-arrive-in-poland-to-pick-up-donated-fighter-jets-00012560\">reported<\/a> as denying any plans to provide Ukraine with aircraft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boris Johnson Rules Out Sending British Troops to Ukraine, Shuts Down \u2018No-Fly Zone\u2019 Pleas<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O0kwW1vdRE\">https:\/\/t.co\/O0kwW1vdRE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1498946218294235140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is despite claims from Ukraine\u2019s airforce that 70 Russian-made fighters had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kpszsu\/posts\/324628826371739\">committed<\/a>\u00a0to the cause, and that they had already apparently dispatched pilots to pick the promised aircraft up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not sending any jets to Ukraine because that would open a military interference in the Ukrainian conflict,\u201d Polish President\u00a0Andrzej Duda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/opinions_192582.htm?selectedLocale=en\">said<\/a> during a press conference with\u00a0Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are not joining that conflict,\u201d the President added. \u201cNATO is not a party to that conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s Prime Minister later clarified the president\u2019s comments as meaning \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-promise-to-supply-fighter-jets-to-ukraine-gets-grounded\/\">according<\/a> to POLITICO \u2014 that the country had no plans on providing the fighter jets to Ukraine\u2019s airforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoland doesn\u2019t have such plans,\u201d he is reported to have confirmed in a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Both Bulgaria and Slovakia were also reported by the publication as saying that there was no deal made to send fighters to Ukraine, with Slovakia being noted as needing the aircraft in the short term, having not yet come to an agreement with Poland regarding the future air defence of their country.<\/p>\n<p>Other countries have also been forced to declare that they do not plan on getting embroiled in the conflict in Ukraine, with Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Boris Johnson flatly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/01\/boris-johnson-rules-out-british-forces-fighting-russia-in-ukraine-shuts-down-no-fly-zone-calls\/\">denying<\/a> the possibility of UK aircraft enforcing a so-called \u201cno-fly-zone\u201d over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I said to (Ukrainian President) Volodymyr Zelensky a couple of times, unfortunately, the implication of that is the UK would be engaged in shooting down Russian planes, it would be engaged in direct combat with Russia,\u201d Johnson said during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not something that we can do or that we\u2019ve envisaged. The consequences of that would be truly very, very difficult to control,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite widely-reported claims that 70 fighter jets were being provided to Ukraine by EU member-states, Western powers have now denied any plans of giving combat aircraft to the embattled nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}