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9 May 2022
The Pentagon has rejected an offer from the Polish government to transfer fighter jets to the United States for use in Ukraine. Pentagon Press Secretary, John Kirby, says the plan is not "tenable." xxx Poland wanted to transfer its Soviet-era MiG-29s to the US, for delivery to the Ukrainian Air Force. The Polish offer was in response to Ukraine's appeal for fighter planes that its pilots are trained to fly. But the US feared the deal could be viewed by Russia as a hostile move.
DW spoke with Ben Hodges, retired US Army officer and the former commander of US forces in Europe, about the refusal of the US to act as an intermediary for the the MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine.xxx
Hodges said he disagred with the Pentagon's decision but added that he did not think "that the book is closed on this."
"I'm willing to bet that we're going to eventually get there," he said. The retired lieutenant general said it was worth considering the option of implementing a no-fly zone, but also other options to help the Ukrainians defend against strikes — which are mostly not coming from Russian planes — including "more intelligence, longer ranges systems where Ukrainians could destroy the source of the damage."
"We cannot repeat what we did at Srebrenica in 1995, where European soldiers under a UN mandate stood outside the city, while 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were murdered by Republika Syrpska forces," Hodges told DW.
The former US army officer believes that "Ukraine is going to win this." "Russia is not going to get into Kyiv, that Russia has made the decision to transition to attrition warfare and to do that, you have to have time, you have to have unlimited ammunition and you have to have unlimited manpower. And Russia has none of those three," he said.
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GENEVA — The United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday that it had verified 1,335 civilian casualties in Ukraine, including 474 killed and 861 injured, since Russia’s invasion began on Feb. 24.
But the civilian toll was incomplete pending corroboration of reports, it said in a statement: “This concerns, for example, the towns of Volnovakha, Mariupol, Izium where there are allegations of hundreds of civilian casualties.”
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Ukraine accuses Russia of bombing a children's hospital in Mariupol during an agreed ceasefire, releases video footage https://t.co/3x1Ij0wjKN pic.twitter.com/Q21qiwhEbm
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 9, 2022
Radioactive substances could be released from Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant because it cannot cool spent nuclear fuel after its power connection was severed, Ukraine’s state-run nuclear company Energoatom said https://t.co/WGkCoJU9XB
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 9, 2022
A young girl entertained people in a bomb shelter in Ukraine by singing the hit song ‘Let it Go’ from the Disney film ‘Frozen’ https://t.co/1uLFohyWuR pic.twitter.com/DwtllHAd3Y
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 10, 2022
Russia, Belarus squarely in 'default territory' on billions in debt -World Bank https://t.co/nmXsaLWm9z pic.twitter.com/KxaAfo47oC
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 10, 2022
FM @DmytroKuleba for @FT: “Granting Ukraine EU membership could be a defining victory for Europe and all of its nations, all of its leaders. All Europeans will feel proud of it — proud of standing on the right side of history, making a moral choice for the ages.” pic.twitter.com/E6HnneWicu
— MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@MFA_Ukraine) March 9, 2022
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