The U.S. says it opposes NATO nations providing fighter jets to Ukraine, a day after Poland offered MiG-29s. A Pentagon spokesman says the planes wouldn't help Ukraine's defenses much but would risk a “significant” Russian reaction.
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Poland is already taking in more people fleeing the war in Ukraine than any other nation in the midst of the largest refugee crisis in decades. It carries the risk of “very dramatic scenarios, even worse than those we are dealing with today,” Morawiecki argued.
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