Revealing Poland’s huge military aid to Ukraine

The weapons package delivered to Ukraine included 200 Soviet-designed T-72 tanks, dozens of Gvozdika cannons, multiple Grad missile launchers, MIG-29 and Su-27 fighter jet missiles, as well as many other ammunition and Polish-made reconnaissance drones, according to broadcaster Polskie.

Radio Polskie points out that Poland had about 400 tanks in its arsenal before the Ukraine conflict, meaning that Warsaw supplied about half of its armored fleet in favor of Kiev.

Some Polish tanks were upgraded in 2019, but Ukraine only received unmodified ones, the report states.

Poland’s deputy defense minister, Wojciech Skurkiewicz, confirmed to the press that Warsaw has continuously provided military support to Ukraine since the start of hostilities.

Warsaw has been one of the most active supporters of Kiev in the midst of the conflict. It urges tough sanctions on Russia, and regularly calls for a NATO peacekeeping mission to secure Western arms shipments to Ukraine.

However, on April 28, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) revealed that Poland and the US plan to use the ongoing conflict for Warsaw to regain control of parts of western Ukraine. which the Poles lost after World War II.

Russia accused Poland of using the pretext of “protecting Ukraine from a Russian attack” to send a Polish (non-NATO) peacekeeping mission to the country, thereby regaining the lands that were once Poland’s. Lan.

Poland denied the claims, calling it a “Russian information operation” aimed at causing internal division. But on April 29, the SVR again reiterated their statement about the Polish peacekeeping operation in Ukraine “not a hypothesis but an intelligence data obtained from a number of reliable sources”. trust”.