kyiv waiting for Polish Mig-29s

• The first Mig-29, Soviet-designed fighter jets, promised by Poland to Ukraine will be given to him in the next few days, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Thursday, March 16. Six more Mig-29s are expected to be delivered soon.
• The United States has again ruled out supplying fighter jets to Ukrainian forcesafter the decision of the Polish government. “It does not change our analysis. It’s not on the table”said John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
• The American MQ-9 Reaper drone which crashed in the Black Sea on Tuesday March 14 after being hit by a Russian plane has been located off Sevastopolin the Crimea, at a depth of about 900 meters, the local news site reported on Thursday ForPostciting a source close to the Russian Defense Ministry.
• The Pentagon released footage of the interception of its Reaper MQ-9 UAV by Russian Su-27 fighters. The images posted on the site of the command of the American armed forces in Europe last about forty seconds and show a Russian Sukhoi passing twice just above the drone, after having approached it from behind.
• Ceremonies were held in Kyiv and Lviv on Thursday, a year after the Russian bombing of the Mariupol Drama Theater. Several hundred people had taken refuge in the basement of this theater, then used as an air raid shelter.
• The transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia or to areas of Ukraine held by Russian forces is a ” war crime “believe the investigators of the UN Human Rights Council, in their first report on the subject.
• Ukraine does not seem ready to order the withdrawal of troops defending Bakhmoutsays the head of the “people’s republic of Donetsk”, installed in the Ukrainian region by the Russians.

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