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Pro-West Slovakia last month became the second country in central and Eastern Europe after Poland to donate fighter jets to Ukraine
Slovakian MiG-29 fighter jets given to Ukraine are faulty and can’t fly combat missions because Russian technicians sabotaged them, Slovakia’s defence minister has said.
Jaroslav Nad, the minister, said that the only broken parts in the warplanes had been installed by Russian technicians who worked at the Slovakian air force base until last year.
“They are able to fly, but that doesn’t mean they are also capable of combat,” he said in parliament, according to local media. “The police are investigating based on our suspicions.”
years after Czechoslovakia split up, and the admission that Russian technicians have tampered with its air force planes will be hugely embarrassing.
Slovakia’s pro-West government last month became the second country in central Europe after Poland to donate fighter jets to Ukraine. It pledged to send all its remaining 11 MiG-29s to Ukraine and had been promised a boost in aid from the EU and additional military supplies from the US as compensation.
General Ľubomír Svoboda, the deputy head of the Slovak military and the former head of its air force, said the technicians had been based in Slovakia under a long-term deal with Russia because they possessed “greater know-how” of the Soviet-designed fighter jet.
Slovakian MiG-29 fighter jets given to Ukraine are faulty and can’t fly combat missions because Russian technicians sabotaged them, Slovakia’s defence minister has said.
Jaroslav Nad, the minister, said that the only broken parts in the warplanes had been installed by Russian technicians who worked at the Slovakian air force base until last year.
“They are able to fly, but that doesn’t mean they are also capable of combat,” he said in parliament, according to local media. “The police are investigating based on our suspicions.”
years after Czechoslovakia split up, and the admission that Russian technicians have tampered with its air force planes will be hugely embarrassing.
Slovakia’s pro-West government last month became the second country in central Europe after Poland to donate fighter jets to Ukraine. It pledged to send all its remaining 11 MiG-29s to Ukraine and had been promised a boost in aid from the EU and additional military supplies from the US as compensation.
General Ľubomír Svoboda, the deputy head of the Slovak military and the former head of its air force, said the technicians had been based in Slovakia under a long-term deal with Russia because they possessed “greater know-how” of the Soviet-designed fighter jet.
