Poland’s hunt for Ukraine? Facts, rumors and comments
Hypothesis of Poland's hunt for Ukraine. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba discussed the issue of supplying Ukraine with airspace fighters with US Secretary of State Blinken and Polish counterpart Rau. Facts and comments
Western fighter for Ukraine?
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba discussed the issue of supplying Ukraine with airspace fighters with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau .
According to reports from the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, during this videoconference briefing he remarked that it is "a difficult process from the point of view of many of its components, but it is moving forward and we are pushing it as much as possible".
Kuleba noted that for obvious reasons he could not disclose the type of means needed to protect the airspace. "There is a clear understanding among our partners that we need to hunt to stop the barbaric destruction of our cities," said the minister.
The United States is "actively evaluating the question of the planes that Poland could send to Ukraine", at war with Russia after the invasion ordered by Vladimir Putin. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed the news, anticipated today by American media, of a plan to get old Mig-29s from Poland to Ukraine, which would receive new fighters from the US.
Massimo Annati, retired admiral and Rid expert (Rivista Italiana Difesa) at Startmag argues that "in reality it is a distortion to say that supplying armaments to a country at war coincides with direct involvement, with becoming belligerents".
And in this regard he cites the example of the war between Iran and Iraq (80-88). “At the time, the French supplied aircraft and missiles to Iraq, as well as the Russians to Iraq and the Chinese to Iran. In these cases, no one said that France, Russia or China had become belligerent ”.
So "there is no sort of inevitable consequence from a legal point of view for those who supplied weapons to warring countries to become a belligerent country", underlines the Rid expert.
"But undoubtedly from this point of view there is a Russian hypersensitivity and therefore the Russians are much more assertive than Iran or Iraq could have been at the time".
So here is "that the Russian threats to consider the possible supply of aircraft as if it were a co-belligerence have probably" convinced "even those who initially supported the idea to retreat".
Finally, "there could also be another legal aspect" to consider according to Annati.
“Now when we supply the weapons we require the so-called end user certificate. This means that the State cannot in turn sell it to someone else without having received prior authorization from the supplier ”, concludes the Rid expert.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/caccia-della-polonia-allucraina-fatti-indiscrezioni-e-commenti/ on Sun, 06 Mar 2022 18:49:03 +0000.