Warsaw is stopping arms supplies to Kyiv, the Polish Prime Minister assured

Poland’s prime minister said this Wednesday that his country had stopped supplying arms to Kyiv to focus on its own weapons, hours after the Ukrainian president’s words about Ukraine’s grain veto.

“We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine, because we are arming ourselves with the most modern weapons,” Mateusz Morawiecki emphasized, answering a journalist’s question about Ukraine’s military and humanitarian support for Ukraine, despite the conflict over grain.

The Prime Minister did not specify when Poland, one of the largest suppliers of weapons to Ukraine, stopped supplying them and whether this decision was related to the conflict over Ukrainian grain.

“We are mainly focused on modernizing and quickly arming the Polish Army so that it becomes one of the most powerful land armies in Europe, and in a very short time,” he said.

Mateusz Morawiecki also emphasized that the military center located in the city of Rzeszow in the south-east of the country, through which Western equipment intended for Ukraine passes, is operating as normal.

Polish authorities today summoned the Ukrainian Ambassador to Warsaw, Vasil Zvarich, to protest against Vladimir Zelensky’s comments regarding Ukraine’s veto on grains, which caused an escalation of criticism between the two countries.

The Foreign Ministry indicated that its goal is to respond to the words of Zelensky, who, during his visit to New York on the occasion of the UN General Assembly, said that “some countries are helping to prepare the ground for the emergence of an actor from Moscow.”

In response, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki threatened in a statement to Polish channel Polsa today to add more products to the list of blocked Ukrainian imports if Kyiv “escalates the conflict” on this issue.

The head of the Polish executive also published a video on his social networks in which he recalled that his country was “the first to do a lot for Ukraine” and therefore hopes that its interests are understood and promises to defend them “with all determination.” .

Poland, together with Hungary and Slovakia, decided to unilaterally extend the ban on imports of agri-food products from Ukraine after Brussels lifted the restrictions imposed at the request of these countries on September 15.

In response, Ukraine on Monday filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO), which, as Morawiecki commented today, “simply means that someone, in this case the Ukrainian side, does not understand the destabilization of the situation.” [a entrada de produtos ucranianos] on the Polish agricultural market.

Verbal escalation between Poland and Ukraine intensified after Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky spoke on Tuesday during a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Polish President Andrzej Duda later responded to these statements, telling the press that “anyone who has ever been involved in rescuing a drowning person knows that this is extremely dangerous and can drag him into the depths.”