“We have our own defense needs,” Radoslav Sikorski said, pointing out that Poland is also a “front-line state” and needs a reliable deterrent against Russia.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski dismissed the Ukrainian government’s protests that it is not supplying it with additional promised aircraft to defend against an invading Russian military.
“We have our own defense needs,” the liberal-conservative politician, who returned to the office of foreign minister in December 2023, explained to the Polsat News television network yesterday Saturday.
Ukraine must understand, Mr. Sikorsky continued, that Poland is also a “front-line state” and needs a credible deterrent against Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently accused Poland of finding ways not to provide more MiG-29, Soviet-designed fighter jets, to the Ukrainian armed forces as promised.
According to Mr Sikorski, Warsaw is drawing up a plan to give Kiev a loan to buy military equipment from Polish companies and repay it in its reconstruction phase.
But according to reports, this proposal is considered unlikely to be approved by Kiev.
Mr. Zelensky also criticizes Poland for not shooting down Russian missiles on his country’s airwaves. Warsaw objects that this would require the approval of all NATO allies.
Poland, a member state of the EU and NATO, borders Ukraine and Belarus, an ally of Moscow. It has been among the main political and military supporters of Kyiv since the outbreak of war on February 24, 2022, and has hosted hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees.
Source :Skai
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