Poland plans to grant Ukraine’s request for fighter jets

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda welcomes Czech Republic’s President Petr Pavel (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Poland’s president has said his country plans to give Ukraine around a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, which would make it the first Nato member to fulfil Kyiv’s increasingly urgent requests for warplanes.

Andrzej Duda said Poland would hand over four of the Soviet-made warplanes “within the next few days” but the rest need servicing and will be supplied later.