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One of Ukraine's staunchest allies, Poland, has said it is no longer supplying weapons to its neighbour, amid a diplomatic dispute over Kyiv's grain exports.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Poland's focus was instead on defending itself with more modern weapons.

Poland has already sent Ukraine 320 Soviet-era tanks and 14 MiG-29 fighter jets and has little more to offer.

However, the remarks coincide with high tensions between the two neighbours.

On Tuesday, Poland summoned Ukraine's ambassador over comments made by President Volodymyr Zelensky at the United Nations after Poland, Hungary and Slovakia extended a ban on Ukrainian grain.

Mr Zelensky said it was alarming how some of Ukraine's friends in Europe were playing out solidarity "in a political theatre - making a thriller from grain".

Warsaw denounced his words as "unjustified concerning Poland, which has ed Ukraine since the first days of the war". The two countries have since sought to cool the row down.

Mr Morawiecki was interviewed on Wednesday night by the private Polsat news TV channel hours after the Ukrainian ambassador had been summoned to the foreign ministry in Warsaw in response to the Ukrainian leader's speech.

"We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine, because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons," the prime minister said.

He was adamant Poland was helping Ukraine defeat the "Russian barbarian" by maintaining a military hub, but would not agree to Poland's markets being destabilised by grain imports, Polish state news agency Pap reported.

"Our hub in Rzeszow, in agreement with the Americans and Nato, is fulfilling the same role the whole time as it has fulfilled and will fulfil."

Poland's military hardware has been depleted by about a third through transfers to Ukraine and Warsaw is in the process of replacing it with modern Western-produced kit.

Arms exports to Ukraine will not stop completely as Polish manufacturer PGZ is due to send about 60 Krab artillery weapons in the coming months. Government spokesman Piotr Muller later clarified that only previously agreed deliveries of ammunition and armaments would be delivered, including those from contracts signed with Ukraine.

Asked about the prime minister's comments, Polish state assets minister Jacek Sasin told Radio Plus on Thursday that "at the moment it is as the prime minister said - in the future we will see".

Poland's ruling Law and Justice party has stepped up its rhetoric in recent weeks in the heat of an acrimonious election campaign, ahead of a 15 October vote, and it has sprung to the defence of Polish farmers who feel threatened by imports of Ukrainian grain.

Russia's full-scale invasion forced Ukraine to find alternative, overland routes when the main Black Sea shipping lanes were all but closed.

That in turn led to large quantities of grain ending up in Central Europe.

Consequently, the European Union temporarily banned imports of grain into five countries, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, to protect local farmers, who feared Ukrainian grain was driving down the prices locally.

When the ban ended on 15 September, the EU chose not to renew it, but Hungary, Slovakia and Poland have maintained the ban, despite the European Commission emphasising it was not up to EU member states to decide broader trade policy.

Earlier this week, Ukraine filed lawsuits to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against those countries over the bans, which it said were a violation of international obligations.

Ukraine's Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that it was "crucially important for us to prove that individual member states cannot ban imports of Ukrainian goods".

Sources said on Thursday that Kyiv had agreed to withdraw its lawsuit against Slovakia, after the two countries said a grain licence system would be set up in the coming months.

Poland has so far said the ban will stay in place, and a "complaint before the WTO doesn't impress us".

Mr Morawiecki said they would increase the number of banned products from Kyiv if Ukraine escalated the grain dispute.

However, Polish Agriculture Minister Robert Telus spoke on Thursday with his Ukrainian counterpart, Mykola Solskyi, and Kyiv said the two neighbours had agreed to seek a solution in both their interests.

Despite the ban, the three countries continue to allow grain to be transported through them to other markets.

French Foreign Minister Catherina Colonna said on Wednesday that an EU study revealed Ukrainian grain imports would not cripple European farmers, and described the tensions as "regrettable".

Poland has provided much to Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia, urging to provide the country with Leopard 2 battle tanks, pledging fighter jets to the country and welcoming more than 1.5m refugees from Ukraine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66873495.amp?espv=1

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Zelensky be like "god damn it! It was a joke".

adebayo987:
Zelensky be like "god damn it! It was a joke".

You got mixed up, Poland PM will soon come out and back track... infact, he will travel to Kyiv to apologize in a press conference same way German foreign minister did last week.

Poland can't stop supplying weapons to Ukraine, if they do, they will get roasted.

Even if a new Prime minister comes in, same thing as case of Italian PM Meloni

Let's be clear, Poland is an unconditional US puppet, if going against Ukraine it is because the US needed a pawn to initiate the dirty job to dump Ukraine.
Poland here just obeyed, it was not a move of self-preservation.

US and its NATO puppets doing the needful

rottennaija:
Let's be clear, Poland is an unconditional US puppet, if going against Ukraine it is because the US needed a pawn to initiate the dirty job to dump Ukraine.
Poland here just obeyed, it was not a move of self-preservation.

Doesn't your quote sound stupid,??
That the USA who just recently activated a new aid to Ukraine is now using Poland to stop aid to Ukraine.

Instead of you to research about the issues at hand you are combing Twitter now X looking for people who are pro Russian bot to quote.
Think for yourself dude

Cheers

Poland is only protecting its local farmers markets
Not to be flooded with cheap Ukrainian wheat, thus putting it's farmer's on the disadvantage.
This won't happen if Russia doesn't stop attacking cargos carrying grains to poor Africa countries from Ukrainian ports

Well most Putin clowns won't read and research but will read the article heading and start writing rubbish

Well come to think of it isn't that why we call them "clowns" , because they usually write shits

obedience4:
Poland is only protecting its local farmers markets
Not to be flooded with cheap Ukrainian wheat, thus putting it's farmer's on the disadvantage.
This won't happen if Russia doesn't stop attacking cargos carrying grains to poor Africa countries from Ukrainian ports

Well most Putin clowns won't read and research but will read the article heading and start writing rubbish

Well come to think of it isn't that why we call them "clowns" , because they usually write shits

did they transport grain from Ukrainian ports to poor African countries?
really?

Jane74:


did they transport grain from Ukrainian ports to poor African countries?
really?

Of course, especially in Eastern Africa countries, the high price of bread in nigeria and other commodities that require wheat and grains is a consequence of the senseless Russia blockage of the black sea.

obedience4:



Doesn't your quote sound stupid,??
That the USA who just recently activated a new aid to Ukraine is now using Poland to stop aid to Ukraine.

Instead of you to research about the issues at hand you are combing Twitter now X looking for people who are pro Russian bot to quote.
Think for yourself dude

Cheers

Nonsense

rottennaija:


Nonsense

How is it nonsense
"The man with balls of steel" zelensky is currently in the USA right now meet POTUS biden and military and aids were signed and given to him, currently on his way to meet Justin traduea of Canada

Yet your assumption, "foolish assumption"is that the USA is pushing Poland to cut aid with Ukraine,
Yet the USA is hosting the same Ukraine president and pledging more military aids to his brave country battling unprovoked senseless military invasion started by a man Putin.

All you people do is combing Twitter looking for private opinions from russian propagandist that fit your narrative and dumbing them on a public forum like
nairaland.


Cheers

obedience4:


How is it nonsense
"The man with balls of steel" zelensky is currently in the USA right now meet POTUS biden and military and aids were signed and given to him, currently on his way to meet Justin traduea of Canada

Yet your assumption, "foolish assumption"is that the USA is pushing Poland to cut aid with Ukraine,
Yet the USA is hosting the same Ukraine president and pledging more military aids to his brave country battling unprovoked senseless military invasion started by a man Putin.

All you people do is combing Twitter looking for private opinions from russian propagandist that fit your narrative and dumbing them on a public forum like
nairaland.


Cheers

Optics. If you know what this mean, you will understand. Zelensky is done.

Well, Ukraine has enough weapons right now to teach Poland a lesson.