Poland has provided Ukraine with weapons worth $1.6 billion (1.5 billion euros) to help it deal with the Russian invasion, Poland’s prime minister said on Saturday.
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“To date, Poland has transferred to our eastern neighbor military equipment worth around 7 billion zlotys, or more than $1.6 billion,” Mateusz Morawiecki said after a briefing. meeting in Krakow (south) with his Ukrainian counterpart Denys Chmygal.
“This equipment saves Ukrainian, Polish and European sovereignty,” he said in a statement.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine at the end of February, the Polish government has announced that it has supplied Ukraine in particular with anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, mortars, ammunition, as well as drones.
Forty tanks, as well as about sixty armored carriers would also be part of the equipment provided by Poland to Kyiv, according to the Polish media, without the government confirming it officially.
During their meeting in Krakow, the Prime Ministers of the two countries signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of railways and freight for the transport of Ukrainian goods and to allow Kyiv to bypass the blockade of Ukrainian ports by Russia.
They also called sanctions against Russia “clearly inadequate” and called again for new sanctions on Russian oil, gas and coal.