Of us watching this closely, it would have marked a potentialfor major escalation, do not escalate this any further, where were they going to fly from? 0r straight into ukraine to be handed over? and the second question is, obviously the ukrainian air force had taken losses, they are still in the fight, the russian air force has got better in the last few days, most of the destruction of the cities we have seen has been caused by artillery and missiles. that may shift, the jets would be handy to the ukrainian air force although they are fairly old, i am just glad that common sense has prevaile...