2023-09-20 22:18:19
Poland’s prime minister said Wednesday that his country was no longer supplying weapons to Kyiv because it was focusing on its own armament, in a statement made hours after Warsaw “urgently” summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to protest against the remarks of President Volodymyr Zelensky at the UN.
“We no longer transfer any weapons to Ukraine, because we arm ourselves with the most modern weapons,” declared Mateusz Morawiecki, interviewed by the private television Polsat News on Poland’s military and humanitarian support for Ukraine. Ukraine despite the grain conflict.
The prime minister did not say when Poland, which is one of Ukraine’s largest arms suppliers, stopped supplying them or whether it had anything to do with the grain conflict.
“We are mainly focusing on modernizing and rapidly arming the Polish army, so that it becomes one of the most powerful land armies in Europe, and in a very short time,” he said. he explains.
He also said that the military hub located in the town of Rzeszow, in the southeast of the country, through which Western equipment destined for Ukraine passes, was functioning normally.
These statements come a few hours after an “emergency” summons by Warsaw of the Ukrainian ambassador to protest against the comments of President Volodymyr Zelensky at the UN.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian president denounced “certain countries feign solidarity (with Ukraine, Editor’s note) by indirectly supporting Russia.”
The Polish Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, who received the Ukrainian diplomat, denounced this “false thesis with regard to Poland and particularly unjustified concerning Poland which has supported Ukraine since the first days of the war”, according to the ministry’s press release.
Tensions between Warsaw and Kyiv, caused by the conflict over Ukrainian grain, imports of which Poland has banned to protect the interests of its farmers, have increased in recent days.
The announcement by Brussels on Friday of the end of the ban on the import of Ukrainian cereals, pronounced in May by five EU states, inflamed tempers, provoking unilateral embargoes to which Kyiv responded on Monday by announcing to file a complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Poland’s prime minister warned on Wednesday that he would expand the list of Ukrainian products banned from importing if Kyiv were to escalate their conflict over a grain embargo.
Ukrainian diplomacy reacted quickly by calling on Poland to “put emotion aside” and adopt a “constructive” approach in this dispute over grain exports.
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