Poland continues to prepare arms for Ukraine

22 September, 2023 KRAB self-propelled howitzer at the Huta Stalowa Wola enterprise in the city of Stalowa Wola in Poland. June 2022. Photo credits: Government of Poland

Poland's defense industry continues to prepare weapons for Ukraine. Polish President Andrzej Duda said that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki's words about suspending military aid to Ukraine because of the need for rearmament were taken out of context. Recently, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Warsaw was now focused on rearming its own army and therefore was not transferring its military aid to Kyiv.

According to the President of Poland, "the Prime Minister's words were interpreted in the worst possible way." "In my opinion, the Prime Minister simply said this: we are not going to give Ukraine the new arms that we are currently buying as part of the modernization of the Polish army," he said.

Andrzej Duda, President of Poland. Photo from open sources

Duda added that a few months ago he met with Morawiecki and discussed military procurement for the Polish army.

"We both had the same position. We cannot transfer our new weapons, which we are now buying for billions of dollars for the Polish army to strengthen it, to strengthen Poland's security, to anyone else. No one," the Polish President emphasized.

"I myself will be the first to oppose the transfer of these new weapons that we are now receiving from South Korea or the United States, such as new Abrams, or Patriots, or HIMARS," he admitted.

KRAB self-propelled guns of the 26th Separate Artillery Brigade of Ukraine. October 2022. Ukraine.

Photo credits: Kostiantyn Liberov

At the same time, the Polish arms contracts that Poland has signed with Ukraine, such as the supply of Krab self-propelled gun-howitzers, will be implemented. In September of this year, the Ukrainian forces were armed with new Polish ZU-23-2CP anti-aircraft guns. As previously reported, Polish specialists from PGZ Service Orel arrived in Ukraine to repair Krab artillery systems.

Polish specialists also trained about 100 Ukrainian soldiers so that they could independently perform basic repair and service work.