skies over the battlefield. and that will prevent the russians from winning, but it will also give the ukrainians the capacity to launch a counteroffensive and take some territory back. what is the issue in your mind with the fighter jets? is it logistical or really this sort of, well, maybe that s escalatory, which at some point i m wondering why that continues to be a concern when the only person escalating is putin. you re exactly right. at first we didn t want to enflame the situation any more than it already was, and now we realize, you know, we ve gone down that road already. the fact that we are parsing what types of weapons to give to ukraine is ridiculous. now, in terms of say the polish mig 29s, those are a 1980s technology. we need to get ukraine the weapons that can compete with top-end russian fighters. the russians obviously tested
jets, these m-16s, to ukraine. how useful are those likely to be? it is my understanding they need a lot of runway. and we know they ve targeted airports. what about training? are these ukrainian fighter pilots, are they able to fly these planes? are they in good condition? what are your thoughts? yeah. so i think first of all, this is to break into the different pieces coming out here. most of the stuff i ve read, the idea of it being polish mig 29s, that poland is only willing to do it in the case that the united states would commit to backing, to filling that gap in their flaet with modern u.s. jets, right? so it would be, transfer the old migs to the ukrainian air force and backfill that with more modern jets. in that regard, they would have the facilities and the training
polish mig 29s to ukraine, the number of u.s. officials have said it s under active discussion about how the u.s. might backfill. we went back and looked at previous statements by polish officials. on sunday the chancellor, the prime minister of poland tweeted poland won t send fighter jets to ukraine. on march 1st the president of poland said we are not sending any jets to ukraine. what are we talking about here? i mean, it sounds like this is flogging a dead horse. is this really a proposition on the table? i can t speak for polish leadership, david. what we said is that this would be a sovereign decision for a nation s state to make whether poland or anybody else.
fighters. david? on this issue of polish mig 29s to ukraine, a number of u.s. officials are said this is under active discussion but now how the u.s. might back fill. we went back and looked at previous statements by polish officials. sunday, the prime minister said they won t send fighter jets to ukraine. on march 1, the president of poland say we re not sending any jets to ukraine. so what are we talking about here? it sounds like this is flogging a dead horse. is this a proposition on the table? i can t speak for polish leadership, david. what we ve said is that this would be a sovereign decision
0 there for this white house. that could mean more high prices to come. john: it s stunning from a lot of americans that we would rather buy oil from iran and venezuela than doing the former. sandra: we re going to dig into a lot of what she said today. thanks for joining us. i m sandra smith. john: i m john roberts. the story with martha stars right now. martha: thank you, john and sandra. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. as russia escalates the bombing of civilians in ukraine, they re being accused of committing war crimes, russian is, in places where russian tanks roam the streets and people are running for their lives. so today president biden speaking with macron of france, boris johnson of the u.k. and shots from germany. you heard the back and forth with peter doocy and jen psaki to cut all off oil imports from russia. this is a major means of funding this war and the killings that we re seeing with many asking why is it okay