A recent dispute over Ukraine’s agricultural exports has threatened to break the alliance with its neighbors.
Poland has said it will no longer supply its neighbor Ukraine with weapons, as a rift over agricultural exports deepens.
„We no longer transfer weapons to [Ukraine], because we are now arming Poland,“ Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Wednesday on the X social media platform, previously known as Twitter, according to a Google translation.
„Ukraine is defending itself against the brutal Russian attack and I understand this situation, but as I said, we will protect our country,“ he added.
Poland is helping Ukraine to fight what he called the „Russian barbarian,“ but cannot agree to any destabilization of the Polish market by Ukrainian grain imports, Morawiecki said in further Google-translated comments carried by Polish news agency Polska Agencja Prasowa. The comments followed a dramatic deterioration of relations between Kyiv and Warsaw this week.
Warsaw has been one of Kyiv’s staunchest allies since mutual foe Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Poland has donated a wide range of weaponry to Kyiv, from modern Leopard 2 tanks to Soviet-era fighter jets, as well as delivering military training to Ukraine’s armed forces.
A recent dispute over Ukraine’s agricultural exports — which have had to be transferred via eastern European countries while Russia has effectively blockaded grain ships leaving the country’s ports — has threatened to break the alliance, however.
