Poland: Poland has announced that it will no longer supply weapons to Ukraine amid rising tension between Warsaw and Kyiv in a dispute over grain exports. The Poland Prime Minister Mr. Mateusz Morawiecki stated that the nation would instead focus on arming itself with more modern weapons.
“We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons,” the Prime Minister commented.
Poland has been among Ukraine’s strongest supporters since the Russian invasion and is one of Kyiv’s primary weapons suppliers. Tensions between Warsaw and Kyiv escalated due to Poland’s imposition of a ban on Ukraine’s grain imports in a bid to protect the interests of Polish farmers.
Ukraine responded to the ban by warning Poland, as well as fellow European Union members Hungary and Slovakia, that it would lodge a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Mr. Morawiecki in turn warned that he would extend the list of Ukrainian products banned from import if Kyiv tried to escalate the grain dispute to an international level.
Recently, Poland also summoned Kyiv’s envoy to the foreign ministry in Warsaw following comments by Ukrainian President Mr. Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the ban on Ukraine’s grain.
Mr. Zelenskyy said at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York that Ukraine was working “to preserve land routes for grain exports,” and he added that the “political theater” around grain was only helping Moscow.
Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. Pawel Jablonski told Ukraine’s Ambassador to Warsaw, Mr. Vasyl Zvarych, that “putting pressure on Poland in multilateral forums or sending complaints to international tribunals are not appropriate methods of resolving disputes between our countries.”
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