EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is not ruling out the possibility that fighter jets will be delivered to Ukraine, despite the current reluctance of countries such as Germany and the United States. The delivery of tanks was also initially highly controversial, said the Spaniard in the run-up to an EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv on Friday. In the end, however, an agreement was reached on the subject and the “red line” was crossed.
So far, there have been warnings of escalation risks for all arms deliveries, he said. Borrell did not want to answer the question of whether he himself advocated fighter jet deliveries. “My job is to reach a consensus,” said the foreign policy officer. It is not helpful to publicly represent positions that might jeopardize this possibility.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, among others, was recently open to the delivery of fighter jets to Ukraine. Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden have so far not wanted to hand over such weapon systems to the country attacked by Russia.
