# Did Russia bomb aircraft repair facility in Liviv to prevent Poland transferring MIGs?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 19, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-russia-bomb-aircraft-repair-facility-in-liviv-to-prevent-poland-transferring-migs/961325 "2022-03-19T02:50:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-russia-bomb-aircraft-repair-facility-in-liviv-to-prevent-poland-transferring-migs/961325/1 "2022-03-19T02:50:06Z")

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Liviv is close to Poland, and aircraft repair area seems a great place for Poland to land their MIGs they want to give to Ukraine.

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**Author:** ![Kedikat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@Kedikat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kedikat)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-russia-bomb-aircraft-repair-facility-in-liviv-to-prevent-poland-transferring-migs/961325/2 "2022-03-19T04:20:28Z")

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Probably. As they would have a landing strip capable for a variety of aircraft. Training facilities near Poland have also been taken out.  
I would not want to be driving any large transport vehicles from nearby countries across the Ukraine border.  
A bit surprised that rail lines have not been taken out.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-russia-bomb-aircraft-repair-facility-in-liviv-to-prevent-poland-transferring-migs/961325/3 "2022-03-19T06:17:59Z")

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Nothing stopping Ukrainian pilots from slipping the border to a convenient spot and getting to an airfield to get the migs that way. For what it is worth, and it was 40 years ago and borders were less strict but I slipped back and forth into Canada a couple dozen times. Not every border has a wall or even a fence.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-russia-bomb-aircraft-repair-facility-in-liviv-to-prevent-poland-transferring-migs/961325/4 "2022-03-19T11:25:53Z")

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The Poles don’t want to give them directly to Ukraine, lest they annoy the Russians.  
I imagine the Russians would not believe that the Ukrainians could “steal” them.

I just noticed that I typoed “transferring”.

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**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-russia-bomb-aircraft-repair-facility-in-liviv-to-prevent-poland-transferring-migs/961325/5 "2022-03-19T13:40:55Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> Nothing stopping Ukrainian pilots from slipping the border to a convenient spot and getting to an airfield to get the migs that way. For what it is worth, and it was 40 years ago and borders were less strict but I slipped back and forth into Canada a couple dozen times. Not every border has a wall or even a fence.

So that was you!! We’ve been trying to find where you’re hiding!! 😇

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-russia-bomb-aircraft-repair-facility-in-liviv-to-prevent-poland-transferring-migs/961325/6 "2022-03-20T00:31:42Z")

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[looks shifty]  
What? I didn’t do nuttin’  
[sidles away]

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-russia-bomb-aircraft-repair-facility-in-liviv-to-prevent-poland-transferring-migs/961325/7 "2022-03-20T00:38:05Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> I just noticed that I typoed “transferring”.

You also misspelled [Lemberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv). 🤫