We are no longer importing weapons to Ukraine, now we are arming Poland, Morawiecki said

“We are no longer importing weapons to Ukraine, because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a televised broadcast on Wednesday.

The statement comes amid increasing tensions between the countries. On Tuesday, Zelensky accused his allies of indirectly helping the enemy by embargoing Ukrainian wheat imports. In return, Warsaw summoned the Ukrainian ambassador.

Morawiecki’s sharp remarks are tempting to interpret as an escalation of the diplomatic rift. But the reality is that Poland has already sent all the resources it can send to Ukraine by now, and is now logically concentrating on replenishing its depleted military equipment supplies.

In his televised speech, the Polish Prime Minister provided some evidence that Polish aid to Ukraine is continuing. He stressed that Polish arms factories will not stop producing and repairing weapons ordered by Kyiv, and Rzeszów airport will continue to process arms shipments to Ukraine.

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Presidents Andrzej Duda and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have been good friends for a long time. But only sharp differences of opinion over Ukraine’s grain exports will show how strong the relationship is.

How Zelenskyi angered Poles

In his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi accused Poland, Slovakia and Hungary of indirectly helping Moscow and only pretending to show solidarity with Ukraine. Kyiv even filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) about the country.

“We have opened a temporary maritime export corridor. We are trying to preserve land routes. It is worrying that some in Europe are playing solidarity as part of political theater – turning the news into a thriller. They seem to stick to their respective roles. But in fact, they helped set the stage for actors from Moscow,” said Zelenskyy.

The Polish Foreign Ministry strongly opposed the Ukrainian president’s statement and summoned the Ukrainian ambassador. Morawiecki later added that Kiev could not blame Poland for feigning solidarity, as “it supported Ukraine from the first day of the war.”

“Ukraine is defending itself from a terrible Russian attack, and I understand the situation, but, as I said, we will protect our country,” he added Poland’s prime minister said his country would now focus on its own weapons.

Polish President Andrzej Duda previously made a similar statement. He said he understood the situation in Ukraine, but Warsaw had to act primarily in Poland’s interests. At the same time, he compared Ukraine to a sinking country, which is dangerous for those who try to save it.

With his words, Duda reacted to the current tensions between the countries, which are related to the long-standing problem of Ukrainian grain exports. Meanwhile the European Commission he decided to not extend the ban on imports to EU countries, Ukraine’s neighbors, which expired last week, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary continued the embargo.

With the ban in place, the three countries and Croatia, which joined the group on Tuesday, are seeking to protect their own farmers, who they say must compete with cheap agricultural crops imported from Ukraine. However, they still want to allow Ukrainian products to cross their borders into regions where people suffer from hunger.

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