Poland’s Ministry of Defense is not going to supply weapons to Ukraine, despite the claims made by a high-profile Ukrainian official, the body’s spokesperson Jacek Sonta told the press.
“There (was) no agreement concerning supply of modern arms from Poland to Ukraine at the NATO summit,” Sonta said in a statement sent to information agencies by email Sunday.
Also on Sunday, Poland’s Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak wrote in a Tweet that there NATO does not have any arrangements on arming Ukraine. During its latest summit, the bloc has only expressed support and the willingness to cooperate with Kiev, the minister added.
Earlier,
Continue..Yury Lutsenko, senior aide to the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, claimed that the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Norway had agreed to supply modern armaments to Ukraine at the September 4-5 NATO summit in Wales. Reuters disproved the information by citing an anonymous high-profile US official. Italy and Norway have also denied the existence of any arrangements on supplying weapons to Ukraine, and France declined to comment on the issue, Reuters reported. Kiev has been carrying out a military operation against the independence movement of the country’s South-East. According to the United Nations, the armed conflict has killed over 2,500 and injured around 6,000 people.
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