in their stock piles to his country and asked whether they were afraid of Moscow.
Ukraine needs just 1 per cent of NATO's aircraft and 1 per cent of its tanks, he said, adding that it would be impossible to stop Russian attacks on the besieged southern port of Mariupol without enough tanks, armoured vehicles and aircraft. Zelenskyy said Poland and the United States had both stated their readiness to make a decision on the planes. But Washington rejected a surprise offer by Poland toUkrainian Air Force spokesman Colonel Yuri Ignat told Reuters the country's pilots had trained for years and conducted joint exercises with US pilots precisely because"we understood that there could be such a scenario".