“So far, Poland has transferred to our eastern neighbor military equipment worth about 7 billion zlotys, or more than 1.6 billion dollars,” Mateusz Morawiecki said after a meeting in Krakow, in the south of the country, with his Ukrainian counterpart Denis Shmygal.
“This equipment saves Ukrainian, Polish and European sovereignty,” he said in a statement.
Since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine at the end of February, the Polish government announced that it had provided Ukraine, in particular, with anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, mortars and ammunition, as well as drones.
The support also included forty tanks and about sixty armored carriers, according to reports by Polish media, which were not officially confirmed by the government.
During their meeting in Krakow, the prime ministers of the two countries signed a cooperation agreement in the field of railways and shipping for the transport of Ukrainian goods, allowing Kiev to bypass the blockade imposed by Russia on Ukrainian ports.
They also described the sanctions against Russia as “manifestly insufficient”, and again called for new sanctions against Russia’s oil, gas and coal sectors.
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