Poland’s president says fighter jets decision ‘not easy’
Poland’s president has said the decision on whether or not to supply Ukraine with fighter jets is “not easy.”
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Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said the decision over whether or not to send fighter jets to Ukraine was “not easy to take.”
Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Duda said responding to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s request for F-16 aircraft is a “very serious decision,” but gave no further indication of whether it would happen.
— Karen Gilchrist
Russian spy service claims U.S. is grooming militants for attack
Russia’s foreign spy service said Monday that it had intelligence that the U.S. military was grooming Islamist militants to attack targets in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, whose head is an ally of President Vladimir Putin, claimed that 60 such militants from groups affiliated with Islamic State and al-Qaeda had been recruited and were being trained at an American base in Syria.
“They will be tasked with preparing and carrying out terrorist attacks against diplomats, civil servants, law enforcement officers and personnel of the armed forces,” the SVR said.
It added that special attention was being paid to recruiting immigrants from the Russian North Caucasus and Central Asia.
The agency did not publish the intelligence behind its assertion and the claims could not be immediately verified.
— Karen Gilchrist