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The Biden administration is discussing how to supply Polish Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine, American officials say, after President Volodymyr Zelensky made a passionate plea to American legislators on Saturday for assistance in obtaining more lethal military aid, especially Russian-made jets that Ukrainian pilots know how to fly.
The White House said a deal with Poland was being discussed that would replace Poland\xe2\x80\x99s planes with American F-16s, but Polish officials seemed less than enthusiastic. After President Andrzej Duda said last week that Poland would not supply planes, the office of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wrote on Twitter on Sunday: \xe2\x80\x9cPoland won\xe2\x80\x99t send its fighter jets to #Ukraine as well as allow to use its airports. We significantly help in many areas.\xe2\x80\x9d
A jet-supply arrangement would require congressional approval and is being discussed with other NATO countries. But any such supply would be a sovereign decision of the country involved, not a NATO decision, because NATO wants to avoid any direct conflict with the Russian military in Ukraine or over its airspace.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, visiting Moldova, said the United States was exploring the idea of supplying jets to Poland should Warsaw choose to send its own to Ukraine.
\xe2\x80\x9cWe are looking actively now at the question of airplanes that Poland may provide to Ukraine and looking at how we might be able to backfill, should Poland decide to supply those planes,\xe2\x80\x9d Mr. Blinken said. \xe2\x80\x9cI can\xe2\x80\x99t speak to a timeline, but I can just say we\xe2\x80\x99re looking at it very, very actively.\xe2\x80\x9d
There are numerous practical questions, including how to provide replacement planes to Poland and how to get the Polish planes to Ukraine. The next tranche of F-16s for export are set to go to Taiwan, American officials said, and they are reluctant to delay them.
Mr. Zelensky has regularly asked for NATO to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to prevent Russian aircraft from bombing, but NATO has been adamant that it will not confront the Russian military in or over Ukraine.
Weapons to shoot down Russian planes, like ground-to-air Stinger missiles, are being sent into Ukraine in large numbers through its western borders, but it is not clear how easily they are being distributed to Ukrainian troops elsewhere in the country.
The European Union had explored the idea of supplying Soviet jets to Ukraine, and its foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell Fontelles, even promised them. But the idea was dropped. Among E.U. countries, only Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria still use Soviet-era jets.
Bulgaria and Slovakia said last week that there was no deal to send fighter jets, and Mr. Duda, appearing Tuesday at a Polish air base alongside the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said, \xe2\x80\x9cWe are not sending any jets to Ukraine because that would open a military interference in the Ukrainian conflict.\xe2\x80\x99\xe2\x80\x99
\xe2\x80\x9cWe are not joining that conflict,\xe2\x80\x9d Mr. Duda said. \xe2\x80\x9cNATO is not a party to that conflict. However, as I said, we are supporting Ukrainians with humanity aid. However, we are not going to send any jets to the Ukrainian airspace.\xe2\x80\x9d
Russia on Sunday did not comment directly on the possibility of the West providing fighter jets to Ukraine, but it threatened countries that allow the Ukrainian military to use their airfields.
Any use of other countries\xe2\x80\x99 airfields \xe2\x80\x9cfor the basing of Ukrainian military aviation that is subsequently used against the Russian armed forces may be regarded as the involvement of those countries in the armed conflict,\xe2\x80\x9d Russia\xe2\x80\x99s Defense Ministry said.
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- A new emblem has surfaced in the Ukraine-Russia conflict: a "Z," stylized in a thick brushstroke.\n
- The "Z" was spotted on Russian tanks invading Ukraine and painted on the sides of military vehicles.\n
- It may have started off as a Russian signal for victory, but has been appropriated as a symbol of the far-right.\n
A new symbol of Russia\'s war against Ukraine has emerged \xe2\x80\x94 a white "Z" emblem, stylized in a thick brushstroke. It has found its way onto the signs and t-shirts of ultra-right, pro-Russian protesters, been painted on Russian tanks and military vehicles, and been worn as a show of support for Russia\'s invasion.
In the past several weeks, the "Z" has gone from a military marking to a potent symbol of support for Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine. And there are signs that Russian nationalist groups have co-opted the mark as well.\xc2\xa0
The emblem was first spotted on Russian tanks in February
The "Z" symbol was first spotted on February 22, emblazoned on Russian military vehicles rolling into Ukraine\'s Donetsk region.
Twitter commenters speculated that the "Z" symbols, which appeared on tanks framed by squares, triangles, and other painted shapes, could be a way to delineate infantries.
Kamil Galeev, a former Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the policy think tank the Wilson Center, tweeted that some interpreted the "Z" as short for "za pobedy" \xe2\x80\x94 the Russian term for "victory." Others have guessed the "Z" is short for "zapad" (or west) and is meant to designate west-bound infantry.
The meaning of the symbol has yet to be confirmed by Russian military sources.\xc2\xa0
A symbol of Russian nationalism and a rallying cry in support of Putin
Despite the letter "Z" not being in the Cyrillic Russian alphabet, the letter appears to have woven itself into the broader Russian wartime narrative.\xc2\xa0
Cars were spotted around Russia emblazoned with the "Z" logo, and businesses have also co-opted the symbol.\xc2\xa0\xc2\xa0
On March 4, a crowd of pro-Russian far-right Serbian protesters marching in Belgrade\xc2\xa0waved signs decorated with the "Z."\xc2\xa0\xc2\xa0
Similarly, a group of Russian nationalist protesters in Leningrad were filmed wearing hoodies emblazoned with a white "Z" along with the words "We don\'t give up our own." It is unclear when the video was taken, but it surfaced on social media in the first week of March.
The slogan echoed false Russian propagandist claims that the invasion is meant to "liberate" and "de-Nazify" Ukraine\xc2\xa0\xe2\x80\x94 an independently-governed democracy led by a Jewish president.
On Sunday, a Russian gymnast appeared at a medal ceremony with a "Z" taped to his uniform
Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak taped a "Z" symbol on the front of his uniform while accepting a medal at the gymnastics World Cup in Doha on Sunday. He came in third, behind Ukraine\'s Illia Kovtun, who came in first.\xc2\xa0
The International Gymnastics Federation has called on the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation to investigate Kuliak\'s actions.
Pro-Putin figures also donned the symbol. Maria Butina, a convicted Russian spy and current member of the Russian State Duma, was seen in a video removing her blazer and drawing a "Z" on her lapel.\xc2\xa0
We look at the effects Russia's invasion of Ukraine is having on other countries in the world. France 24 Oliver Farry reports from Hong Kong.
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