A meeting of a group of Western countries scheduled for January 9 at the Ramstein airbase in Germany to discuss coordination of arms deliveries to Ukraine may be the last in its current format, Polish Defense Ministry head Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on January 8.
“Maybe this is the last meeting in this format, because the new administration [in the United States] is very likely to propose another formula for activities,” Kosiniak-Kamysz said at a press conference in the Sejm.
In addition, the head of the Polish Defense Ministry stressed that December and January were particularly busy months for the transportation of arms through Poland, adding that it was through this country that 90 percent of all aid packages for Ukraine pass.
Earlier, on November 1, 2024, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that Poland should not have supplied military aid to Kiev on a gratuitous basis, it should have been done in the form of a loan. However, the government has made this proposal only now.
On the same day, Poland explained its refusal to step up aid to Kiev by prioritizing its security. According to Sikorski, the country, as well as Ukraine, is threatened by Russia, so strengthening assistance to Ukraine is not possible yet.
Before that, on October 31, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose term as Ukraine’s president expires on May 20, 2024, condemned Poland for refusing to transfer MiG-29 fighter jets to Kiev after an agreement with NATO.
He said he had agreed on the transfer of the fighter jets with former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Poland was supposed to hand over the Soviet MiG-29s to Kiev and the North Atlantic Alliance would compensate Warsaw for them. But this has not happened so far.
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