CHISINAU, 07 March 2022, (TON): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the United States was working actively on a deal with Poland to supply Ukraine with jets to fight invading Russians.

The deal, according to reports, could involve Pol-and handing over its existing MIG-29s, a Soviet/Russian-made jet fighter Ukrainian pilots are familiar with, and the US would then provide its F-16 fighters to Poland as replacements.

US officials, including Blinken, had downplayed the possibility of any NATO country supplying besi-eged Ukraine since the beg-inning of this week. But speaking in Moldova, Blinken confirmed it was under active discussion.

He told reporters “can’t speak to a timeline, but I can just say we’re looking at it very, very actively.”

“We are looking actively now at the question of airplanes that Poland may provide to Ukraine and looking at how we might be able to backfill should Poland decide to supply those planes.”

The comments came one day after Blinken met Ukraine’s foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on the Poland-Ukraine border and Kuleba pressed him for the aircraft.