⚠️ Social media posts share false claim about 'NATO-supplied fighter jets arriving in Ukraine'
in March 2022 that Poland -- a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- had proposed supplying Ukraine with its Soviet-era MiG-29 jets through a US air force base.
Warsaw suggested the US would then replace these jets in Poland's fleet with American F-16 fighter jets. The plan was rejected by Washington as being too"high risk", as Russia could interpret the move as a military escalation., as of September 12, 2022 there have been no reports of NATO supplying fighter jets to Ukraine."These claims are not accurate and NATO is not part of the conflict," the officer said.
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