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.
