Slovakia gives Ukraine remaining nine of 13 promised warplanes

Slovakia has delivered the remaining nine of the 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets it promised to Ukraine, the Slovak Defence Ministry said on Monday (Petr David Josek/AP)

Slovakia has delivered the remaining nine of the 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets it promised to Ukraine, the Slovak Defence Ministry said on Monday.

The ministry said the warplanes were transported overland for security reasons in a “complicated logistics operation”.