Poland will soon hand Ukraine two more MiG-29 fighter jets as part of a new military aid package worth about €50 million (about $56 million), the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita reported on Thursday. Reserve Lt. Gen. Dariusz Łukowski, director of the Polish defence ministry's Strategy and Defence Planning Department, confirmed the transfer to the newspaper: 'Soon. The decision has been made, and two MiG-29s will be transferred.' He gave no date beyond the near future.

Source: Defence Blog, reporting Rzeczpospolita

2MiG-29 fighter jets Poland will transfer to Ukraine
€50 millionValue of the new aid package — yaani roughly €5 crore (about $56 million)
16Total MiG-29s Poland will have delivered to Ukraine once these two arrive
1 of 2Jets still airworthy; the other has reached the end of its service life and may be used for spare parts

Only one of the two jets is still flying. The other has reached the end of its service life, and Rzeczpospolita reported that Ukraine may use it as a source of spare parts to keep its own MiG-29 fleet in the air. The rest of the package is mostly munitions: 155 mm and 152 mm artillery shells, 20 mm rounds for the six-barrel cannon fitted to F-16 fighters — which Ukrainian pilots use to shoot down Russian drones — and missiles for the Piorun shoulder-fired air-defence system built by the Polish manufacturer Mesko.

Poland's defence ministry declined to detail the contents, saying only that the package draws on equipment being retired by the Polish armed forces or no longer needed, and that its scope is set by the capabilities of the Polish armed forces and security considerations. Ukrainian defence officials had said in September that the expected Polish donation would be worth €50 million and would include air-defence equipment.

Source: 112.ua (UATV reporting), Poland MoD statements

With these two aircraft, Poland's total MiG-29 deliveries to Ukraine will reach 16, following transfers of 10 jets in May 2023 and four more afterwards, the Turkish defence outlet SSBülten reported. Poland is filling the gaps in its own air force with F-16 and FA-50 platforms as the older Soviet-designed aircraft are retired.

Source: SSBülten

Jets for drone technology?

Kyiv Post reported that Warsaw is also considering a broader deal to exchange retired jets for Ukrainian drone technology, with President Karol Nawrocki signalling support in principle. No such exchange has been announced, and the two MiG-29s confirmed on Thursday are a straight aid transfer from Polish stocks.

The transfer underlines how NATO's eastern-flank states continue to pass Soviet-era equipment to Kyiv while backfilling their own forces with Western aircraft — a pattern that has run since the first Polish MiG-29s went to Ukraine in 2023.