With our correspondent in Warsaw, Martin Chabal
Polish President Andrzej Duda pulled out the fire extinguisher. The two allies, who seemed to be best friends just a few months ago, were in an argument on Wednesday. The Polish Prime Minister’s words were “interpreted in the worst possible way,” said Andrzej Duda.
“In my opinion, the prime minister simply said that we will not give Ukraine the new weapons that we are currently buying to modernize our army,” he said in an interview with TVN24.
Poland has been spending billions for more than a year to replace the post-Soviet equipment sent to Ukraine at the start of the war.
The Polish president nevertheless returned to Volodymyr Zelensky’s statements to the United Nations General Assembly: “He didn’t mention Poland, but of course he said it between the lines and we all included it.” I was sad at that moment, because I thought what he said was unfair. »
A bitterness that has passed for the Polish president who is traveling to the United States. He still hasn’t discussed with his Ukrainian counterpart… also visits the United States: “We couldn’t have a meeting today. I was on the witness stand and gave speeches whenever possible. »
About tensions over Ukrainian grainThe Polish head of state had no solution to propose and preferred to put the question to his country’s agriculture minister.
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