Sean Penn spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak on Wednesday. Following the conversation, the actor, who has been in Ukraine since the war with Russia began, took to Twitter to weigh in on the country's need for jets. "I JUST got off a call with President Zelensky’s Chief of staff, Andriy Yermak," he wrote. "Somewhere in the bureaucratic chain between our White House & the Polish Gov., the desperately NEEDED jets are not yet delivered to Ukraine.
Public outcry may find the bottleneck." Poland offered to give its entire fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets to the U.S. in exchange for a chance to buy American F-16s as part of a deal to bolster the Ukrainian air force while upgrading the Poles’ with NATO aircraft.
Ukrainian defense officials for days have been asking for help with supplies ranging from helmets to ammunition and fighter jets, a request that Poland appeared ready to fulfill almost two weeks into Russia’s invasion of its smaller neighbor.
Earlier Tuesday, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to President Biden urging him to support a deal with Poland.
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