<br><div><aside class="gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el" aria-label="Video - Ukraine and Russia agree to create humanitarian corridor for refugees fleeing the war"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Poland and Romania on Wednesday as the United States and its NATO allies seek to boost Ukrainian fighters while avoiding getting <a target="_blank" href="/story/news/politics/2022/03/08/ukraine-russia-invasion-live-updates/9419920002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">caught up in a wider war with Russia</a>.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">But diplomatic turbulence made headlines Tuesday after the Polish government said it would give all of its <a target="_blank" href="/story/news/politics/2022/03/08/would-deal-send-fighter-jets-ukraine-make-difference/9411326002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">MiG-29 fighter jets to the U.S., apparently agreeing to an arrangement that would allow them to be used by Ukraine’s military</a>. In turn, the U.S. would supply Poland with U.S.-made jets with “corresponding capabilities.”</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">But Polish officials didn’t run that idea past the Biden administration before going public with it, as the Pentagon quickly dismissed the idea as not “a tenable one.”</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement that the prospect of jets departing from a U.S./NATO base in Germany to fly into airspace contested with Russia in the Ukraine war is concerning. He said it’s not clear to the U.S. that there is a substantive rationale for it.</p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">The Pentagon said the U.S. will continue to talk to Poland about the matter.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">President Joe Biden has applauded Poland and other eastern European countries for stepping up in the <a target="_blank" href="/story/news/politics/2022/03/07/strollers-ukraine-polish-train-station/9412895002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">midst of what’s become an enormous humanitarian crisis</a> that is only growing. Some 2 million people have fled Ukraine and more than half of the r<a target="_blank" href="/story/news/politics/2022/03/03/refugees-ukraine-russian-invasion/9345475002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">efugees have arrived in Poland.</a></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong><em>Latest developments:</em></strong></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">►Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal early Wednesday by providing $13.6 billion to help Ukraine and...</p></div> <style> .wrapper { text-align: center; } </style> <div class="wrapper"> <a class="button" href ="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/09/ukraine-russia-invasion-live-updates/9433740002/">Read more <span>➤</span></a> </div>
