In an interview published Friday with the Wall Street Journal, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki calls on his allies to speed up arms deliveries to Ukraine; says he hopes Kiev will receive Western warplanes. For his part, Morawiecki said in an interview with news portal Politico after the European Council summit in Brussels that ended Friday that “Germany should send more arms, more ammunition and more money to Ukraine.”
Fighters for Ukraine
Ukraine has long appealed to Western partners to supply it with fighter jets, but the US, like many other countries, has decided not to make such a decision for fear of escalation and a war turning into direct conflict with Russia. Meanwhile, Poland and Slovakia announced that they would deliver at least 17 modernized MiGs to Ukraine, the daily recalls.
By donating aircraft, Warsaw wants to “encourage others, as it did in the case of Leopard tanks,” the prime minister said.
As the daily recalled, when US President Joe Biden agreed to send US Abrams tanks to Ukraine, Berlin decided to supply it with Leopards and allow other countries to take the same steps.
Just six months ago, it was unimaginable
– assessed the head of government.
Additional leopards from Poland
“WSJ reported that Poland would consider sending additional Leopards to Ukraine once it received Abrams from the US and other tanks from South Korea. But Warsaw also wants the Allies to speed up tank deliveries – wrote “WSJ”, reporting on the conversation with the Polish Prime Minister.
We want to lead by example, but we also want others to do the same
Morawiecki said.
The New York daily recalled that Chinese President Xi Jinping ended his visit to Moscow on Wednesday, where he spoke with Vladimir Putin.
The Polish Prime Minister said he was +extremely concerned+ about the meeting, which +sent a clear signal of (Beijing’s) support for Russia+
WSJ writes.
A response to Beijing’s possible decisions
The Polish prime minister said he hopes “China will not cross the red line by sending significant military support to Russia (…)”. Morawiecki stated that if “Beijing were to send arms to Russia on a large scale, it would be + a turning point + in this war and would require a strong and coherent response from the West.”
NATO should decide very quickly… what to do and what kind of weapons we should send to Ukraine in response. It should be a joint NATO response, and a very strong one
said the prime minister.
Call to Germany
“Germany should send more arms, more ammunition and more money to Ukraine because it is by far the richest and largest country in the EU, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview with the news portal Politico after the European Council summit in Brussels on Friday.
The head of the Polish government made the reservation that he was not attacking Germany, only “stating the obvious”.
The prime minister admitted that Berlin has changed its policy, including investing in modernizing the army and lifting the ban on sending weapons to the war zone. In particular, Morawiecki highlighted Germany’s decision to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
Three months ago Germany said it was impossible – now it is possible
he noted, pointing out that this shows that a change of approach is possible.
Mateusz Morawiecki also announced that he had presented his position on German aid to Ukraine to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
We have conversations about this from time to time. I ask him for the same amount of support. I can not do anything else
he explained.
“We asked them not to.”
The Polish leader also raised the issue of German energy policy, which was based on Russian gas imports.
Due to their very wrong gas and oil policy towards Russia (Germany), they are partly responsible for what is happening, for this mess on the energy market. Germany made this dramatic mistake by making its business model completely dependent on Russia for fossil fuels
– he said.
And we called them. We have asked them not to
concluded the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.
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Source: wPolityce