Actor Sean Penn MOSCOW, Mar 9American actor Sean Penn, who met with Vladimir Zelensky, asks to send Polish fighter jets to Ukraine. Earlier, the Polish Foreign Ministry said that they could not transfer combat aircraft to Ukraine on their own and offered to transfer their MiG-29 fighters to the US government at the Ramstein air base. In response, US Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said that NATO does not consider «Poland's proposal reasonable,» and the prospect of sending fighters from US and NATO bases in Germany «raises serious concerns for the entire alliance.» US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in turn, said that the US did not understand why Poland wants to send MiG-29s to Ukraine by transferring them to the US. «/>Psaki: sending aircraft to Ukraine from a US base is not in the interests of Washington , — the actor wrote on Twitter. Penn attached a photo to his publication in which he communicates with Yermak via video link. Sean Penn was in Ukraine to shoot a documentary. At the end of February, the actor met with Vladimir Zelensky there against the backdrop of the ongoing Russian military operation to demilitarize Ukraine. A few days later, the actor posted on Twitter, where he announced that he was leaving Ukraine and that he had to walk «miles» on foot to the Polish border. The United States did not understand the logistics of Poland for the transfer of aircraft to Ukraine. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian Federation would consider the decision to introduce a no-fly zone over Ukraine as participation in an armed conflict. According to him, this applies to «any country from whose territory threats to our military personnel will be created,» and it does not matter which organizations this country is a member of. The Russian Defense Ministry noted that the use of the airfield network of third countries for basing Ukrainian military aviation and its use against the Russian Armed Forces can be regarded as the involvement of these states in an armed conflict. The Kremlin called the possible use by Ukraine of military airfields of other countries an undesirable and potentially dangerous scenario.
