Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has said that his country is offering Ukraine the opportunity to buy weapons on credit. He said this in an interview with Polsat.
According to Sikorski, Donald Tusk’s government has put forward a proposal to provide a defence loan, which Ukraine will repay after the completion of the reconstruction process.
‘This could have been done from the very beginning: here, please, buy from Polish factories on credit, and when you recover, you will pay back,’ the minister said.
In addition, Sikorski was asked about a comment made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who recently said that ‘Poland has found another reason not to transfer MiG-29 aircraft’.
‘We found out the source of this statement. It was a larger, spontaneous statement about how the war is going on. It’s not that the president specifically attacked Poland,’ the Foreign Minister explained.
In response to Zelenskyy’s statement, Sikorski stressed that the Poles have done more for Ukraine than any other country.
‘Poland is a country at the forefront of this war. We are the only EU and NATO country whose neighbours are Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine understands that we also have to deter Putin,’ he said.
The diplomat stressed that Poland has its own defence needs.
‘As ministers of the Polish government, Deputy Prime Minister Kosyniak-Kamysh and I, we must keep this war as far away from our borders as possible,’ Sikorski said.
Asked about the appeal by members of the US House of Representatives to President Joe Biden to allow Poland to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine, the minister said that Poland would make the decision together with NATO. So far, no decision has been made.
Turning to the situation in Ukraine, the Minister noted that the country is going through a difficult period.
‘So let’s show understanding to the president, who is going through a difficult time,’ he added.
