Dmitry KulebaMOSCOW, Mar 14Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called the situation around the possibility of providing his country with fighter jets a «diplomatic mystery» and asked NATO countries to provide support. «Honestly, everything that happened around these fighters over the past week is a kind of diplomatic mystery. On the one hand, everyone is ready to do it «But nothing happens and we don't get planes. It reminds me of another game of ping-pong, where each side throws a ball to the other side and gets it back. We don't have time for that kind of ping-pong diplomacy. We need planes, to save the lives of our people and stop Russia's dominance in the sky,» Kuleba said in an interview with the American CBS channel. The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stressed that his country would continue to put pressure on the United States and partners to provide the country with fighter jets. According to him, Ukraine does not expect protection from NATO, but only asks for the necessary weapons. White House spokesman Jen Psaki said earlier that the transfer of fighter jets by Poland to Ukraine would be a path to world war. Earlier, the Pentagon did not support Poland's plans to transport several dozen Soviet-made MiG-29 aircraft. According to the plan of the Polish authorities, the fighters were to be transferred to the American air base in Germany so that the United States would then decide their fate. However, according to the Pentagon, the US intelligence community has concluded that the transfer of the MiG-29 could be interpreted as an escalation move and entail a «substantial reaction» from the Russian side, increasing NATO's involvement in the conflict. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia stressed.
