Poland has issued a formal request to Germany for permission to send Cold War-era MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, the German government confirmed on Thursday, APA reports citing Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA).
According to German rules, the weapons that it sells require approval from Berlin if the receiving country wants to send them on to a third country.
Poland had already sent eight of the jets to Ukraine, Polish President Andrzej Duda confirmed in March, but the ones they want to now deliver come from old East German stocks.
The Soviet-made planes formerly belonged to East Germany and 23 were transferred to Poland in 2002.
Duda's security adviser Jacek Siewiera said that a dozen of the jets were still in Poland.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said during a visit to Bundeswehr soldiers in Mali that the German government would likely reach a decision on approval on Thursday, German news agency DPA reported.
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