Poland requests German permission to send its MiG-29s to Ukraine
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Poland has issued a formal request to Germany for permission to send Cold War-era MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine.
Weapons that it sells require approval from Berlin if the receiving country wants to send them on to a third country, DPA reports.
"Poland appealed to the Federal Government of Germany with a request to grant permission for the supply of Soviet-type combat aircraft to Ukraine," the statement says.
Citing sources in government circles, DPA reported that the relevant letter had already arrived in Berlin.
"We are talking about MiG-29 type jet planes from the old stocks of the German Democratic Republic, which Germany sent to Poland and Berlin must agree to transfer," the report says.
Poland had already sent four jets to Ukraine, but the ones they want to deliver now come from old East German stocks.
The Soviet-made planes formerly belonged to East Germany and were transferred to Poland in 2002.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said during a visit to Bundeswehr soldiers in Mali that the German government would likely reach a decision on approval on Thursday, German news agency DPA reported.
Ukraine has been calling for the delivery of fighter jets to better defend against Russia's full-scale war.
