THE Polandwho has been one of her most ardent supporters Ukrainian from start of warannounced that it would no longer offer weapons to the Kyiva statement indicative of the escalating tension between the two allies.
“We will no longer transport any weapons to Ukraine,” he said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaking to the private television network Polsat News.
“We will mainly focus on the modernization and rapid equipping of the Polish army in order to make it one of the most powerful land armies in Europe, and that too in a short period of time,” he explained.
Poland, until today, was among the countries that provided the most weapons to Ukraine. Morawiecki did not specify when exactly Poland stopped — or would stop — arming Ukraine, or whether it was linked to the standoff over Ukrainian grain, the import of which Warsaw has banned to protect the interests of its farmers.
This announcement was made a few hours after Warsaw “emergency” summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to protest his statements Volodymyr Zelensky to UN. The Ukrainian President, without naming Poland, he complained that “some countries are hindering solidarity (with Ukraine) by indirectly supporting Russia.”
Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Yablonski, who met with the Ukrainian ambassador, spoke of a “false claim”, which he called “particularly unfair towards Poland, which has supported Ukraine since the first days of the war”.
Poland, Slovakia and Hungary announce restrictions on grain imports from Ukraine on Friday, after European Commission decided not to extend the ban on sales to five European countries neighboring Ukraine, which also include Romania and Bulgaria.
In response Kiev has announced that it will appeal to the World Trade Organizationwhile reacting Moravietski warned that his country could ban the import of other Ukrainian products.
“Putting pressure on Poland in international forums or filing appeals in international courts are not appropriate methods to resolve the differences between our countries”Polish diplomacy commented in a statement.
“We ask our Polish friends to put emotion aside,” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko reacted after Warsaw said it was summoning the Ukrainian ambassador to protest.
Denouncing the “unacceptable for Ukraine nature of Poland’s unilateral ban on Ukrainian grain imports”Nikolenko added that “the Ukrainian side offered Poland a constructive solution to the grain problem.”
He also criticized “the wrong nature” of the statements of the Polish president, Andriy Duda, who, speaking to journalists in New York, compared Ukraine to a drowning man who risks dragging to the bottom and drowning anyone who tries to save him, meaning the his country.
Source: News Beast
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