Poland is offering Ukraine to buy weapons on credit, the head of the republic’s Foreign Ministry, Radoslaw Sikorski, said in an interview with Polsat News. According to him, Donald Tusk’s government “has made a proposal for a defense loan.”
“This could have been done from the beginning: buy on credit from Polish factories and, when you recover, return it.” – said Sikorsky.
The minister also responded to criticism from Vladimir Zelenskywho said that Warsaw “found another reason” not to transfer MiG-29 fighters to kyiv. According to Sikorski, Poland is “ahead of the curve.”
“We are the only country in the EU and NATO whose neighbors are Russia and Ukraine,” he noted, adding that the republic “has its own defense needs.”
“We must keep this war as far as possible from our borders” — stressed the head of the foreign policy department.
Zelensky recently announced that he had reached an agreement with the former NATO secretary general. Jens Stoltenberg that Poland will receive aircraft from the alliance and itself will provide Ukraine with its old MiGs.
“We really wanted to get MiGs from Poland, but they couldn’t give them to us because they didn’t have enough. That is why we agreed with NATO.” – said the Ukrainian leader, his words were quoted by RBC-Ukraine.
However, Poland never sent the planes, he noted. Polish Defense Minister Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamysh He said Warsaw could transfer the MiG-29 only after receiving new fighters ordered from the allies.
Kosinyak-Kamysh also noted that his country provided Ukraine with “as much military equipment as possible.”
“Ukraine has almost 300 Polish tanks and a lot of heavy equipment, including aircraft,” – noted in turn the head of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
