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No weapons for Ukraine? The Polish president rows back. Niger’s deposed president goes to court

Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki has apparently rejected new arms deliveries to Ukraine. Was the politician simply misinterpreted?
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Polish President Andrzej Duda has described the irritation surrounding a possible halt to Polish arms deliveries to Ukraine as a misunderstanding. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s statements were interpreted in “the worst possible way,” Duda told TVN24 on Thursday. “In my opinion, the prime minister wanted to say that we will not supply Ukraine with the new weapons that we are currently purchasing as part of the modernization of the Polish army.”

Warsaw has signed arms deals with the US and South Korea for the purchase of new tanks and howitzers. “When we receive the new weapons from the US and South Korea, we will release the weapons currently used by the Polish army. Maybe we will pass them on to Ukraine,” Duda said.

Morawiecki caused irritation

Morawiecki indicated on Wednesday that Poland would no longer supply weapons to Ukraine “because we equip ourselves with the most modern weapons.” The statement caused irritation in Brussels and Berlin.

Polish government spokesman Piotr Müller clarified Morawiecki’s statement on Thursday, saying that in the future Poland would limit arms supplies to Ukraine to contracts already concluded. “Poland is only carrying out the deliveries of ammunition and weapons that were decided at an earlier date,” Müller said, according to Polish news agency PAP. This also includes deliveries contractually agreed with Ukraine.

Since the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, Poland has been one of Kiev’s biggest supporters and arms suppliers. It is also a major transit point for weapons sent to Ukraine by other Western allies. Poland has hosted around a million refugees from its neighboring country.

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