Ukraine war: US rejects Poland's offer to supply fighter planes to Kyiv
The Pentagon has rejected an offer from Poland to give its MiG-29 fighter jets to the US so they can be passed to Ukraine, saying it raises serious concerns for the NATO alliance.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said the prospect of jets departing from a US/NATO base in Germany to fly into airspace contested with Russia in the Ukraine war is concerning.
In other developments:
Ukrainian authorities say that Russian warplanes have carried new strikes on residential areas in eastern and central parts of the country.
Russian aircraft on Tuesday night bombed residential areas around Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and Zhytomyr, to the west of Kyiv, and its military also stepped up its shelling of Kyiv's suburbs, the Ukrainian emergency services said.
An air alert was declared Wednesday morning in and around Kyiv, with residents urged to get to bomb shelters as quickly as possible.
Thousands of people were evacuated from the eastern city of Sumy on Tuesday. But another attempt to move people to safety from the besieged southern port of Mariupol failed.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (AEIA) said on Tuesday that systems broadcasting radiation levels from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have stopped sending signals. The plant was seized by Russian troops two weeks ago.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the leaders of the United States and United Kingdom for banning Russian oil imports.
McDonald’s, Starbucks and Coca-Cola are among the latest multinationals to suspend business in Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
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