Slovakia Offered US Helicopters for Giving Jets to Ukraine

Slovakia Offered US Helicopters for Giving Jets to Ukraine
A Yugoslav airforce Mig-29 fighter flies over Belgrade on June 1998, during patrol duty. Sasa Radic/AP Photo
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia—The United States has offered Slovakia 12 new military helicopters as compensation for the MiG-29 fighter jets the European country is giving to Ukraine, Slovakia’s defense minister said Wednesday.

Under the offer, Slovakia would pay $340 million for the Bell AH-1Z attack choppers in a deal worth about $1 billion that also includes 500 AGM-114 Hellfire II missiles and training, Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said.