The Polish Prime Minister revealed this Wednesday that his country stopped supplying weapons to Kiev, to focus on its own, hours after the Ukrainian president’s words about Ukraine’s grain veto.
“We no longer transfer weapons to Ukraine because we arm ourselves with the most modern weapons,” stressed Mateusz Morawiecki, when asked by a journalist about Poland’s military and humanitarian support for 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 this decision had anything to do with the conflict over Ukrainian grain.
“We are mainly focused on rapidly modernizing and arming the Polish army, so that it becomes one of the most powerful land armies in Europe, and in a very short space of time,” he said.
Mateusz Morawiecki also highlighted that the military center located in the city of Rzeszow, in the southeast of the country, through which Western equipment passes to Ukraine, is operating normally.
Polish authorities today summoned the Ukrainian ambassador in Warsaw, Vasil Zvarich, to protest Volodymyr Zelensky’s words regarding Ukraine’s grain veto, in an escalation of criticism between both countries.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that its objective is to respond to the words of Zelensky, who stated during his visit to New York on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly that “some countries are helping to prepare a stage for the emergence of an actor of Moscow”.
In response, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki threatened today, in statements to the Polish channel Polsa, to add more products to the list of blocked Ukrainian imports if Kiev “intensifies the conflict” over this issue.
The head of the Polish executive also published a video on his social networks in which he recalled that his country “was the first to do a lot for Ukraine” and therefore hopes that its interests are understood and promises to defend them “with all determination.” .
Poland, together with Hungary and Slovakia, decided to unilaterally extend the ban on importing agri-food products from Ukraine, after Brussels lifted the restrictions imposed at the request of these countries on September 15.
In response, Ukraine filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday, which, as Morawiecki commented today, “only means that someone, in this case the Ukrainian side, does not understand the destabilization [a entrada de produtos ucranianos] on the Polish agricultural market.
The verbal escalation between Poland and Ukraine intensified with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Tuesday speech during the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York.
Later, Polish President Andrzej Duda responded to these statements by telling the press that “anyone who has ever participated in rescuing a drowning person knows that it is extremely dangerous and can drag them into the depths.”
Source: TSF
