Well that MIG-29 deal for a start.
Look at how that took over the news for a couple of days and saw loads of politicians act up about it as if that would help Ukraine out massively (indeed several still are). This was despite anyone being able to read Wikipedia being able to find out that the planes are 30-35 years old, have an increasingly bad condition and would have been up against opponents that have more and better aircraft and a SAM net that is probably one of the best in the world. How the planes would actually get there was also never actually explained.
I'll take your word for it about the age of the Polish migs, although I do know it's an old design. In the media it said that:
Poland had them.
They were preferred by Ukraine because their pilots were familiar with them.
There were plans under consideration to get them to Ukraine.
All of that was true, as far as I'm aware.
Although some politicians, esp USA did get excited about it, and are still so, that was also accurately reported. I haven't heard any, eg BBC, reports specifically say that these aircraft were a game changer, so if people inferred that from the excitement of politicians, then that's not suspect reporting, but erroneous conclusions on the part of those individuals from the facts they were presented with. I'm happy to caution people about jumping to conclusions, and accept that in war both sides often lie through their teeth, so we should be cautious of accepting as fact any reports referring to what the two warring parties say, but I don't believe that media reports are in any large degree deliberately or negligently nonsense.
