Poland announced on Wednesday night that it was no longer supplying weapons to Kyiv, a statement that illustrates rising tensions between the two allies at a key moment in Kyiv’s response to the Russian invasion, AFP writes.

“We are no longer transferring any type of weapons to Ukraine,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on the air of the private TV station Polsat News, Agerpres notes.

“Mostly, we are focused on rapidly modernizing and arming the Polish army so that it becomes one of the strongest land armies in Europe, and in a very short time,” he explained.

He also stated that the military hub, located in the city of Rzeszów in the southeast of the country, through which Western equipment passes to Ukraine, is working normally.

The prime minister did not say when Poland, one of Ukraine’s biggest arms suppliers, stopped supplying them, or whether it was related to the conflict over Ukrainian grain, when Warsaw banned its imports to protect the interests of its farmers.

He stated this a few hours after the “emergency” summons of the Ukrainian ambassador by Warsaw as a sign of protest against President Volodymyr Zelensky’s comments at the UN.

On Tuesday, the Ukrainian president criticized the fact that “some countries declare solidarity (with Ukraine), indirectly supporting Russia.”

The deputy foreign minister of Poland, who received the Ukrainian diplomat, condemned this “false thesis” and “especially unjustified in relation to Poland, which has supported Ukraine since the first days of the war.”

Brussels’ announcement on Friday that it was lifting a ban on Ukrainian grain imports imposed in more than five EU countries fueled tempers, prompting a unilateral embargo, to which Kyiv responded on Monday by announcing it would file a complaint with the World Organization trade

Threats to Poland

In response, the Polish Prime Minister warned on Wednesday that he would expand the list of Ukrainian goods prohibited for import.

“Putting pressure on Poland in multilateral forums or sending complaints to international tribunals are not appropriate methods of resolving differences between our countries,” Polish diplomacy warned in a statement.

“We appeal to our Polish friends to put aside their emotions,” Ukrainian diplomacy spokesman Oleg Nikolenko responded after Warsaw announced the summons of the Ukrainian ambassador.

Condemning the “unacceptable for Ukraine nature of Poland’s unilateral ban on the import of Ukrainian grain,” Nikolenko added that “the Ukrainian side offered Poland a constructive solution to the grain problem.”

He also complained about the “incorrectness” of Polish President Andrzej Duda’s statements during a press conference in New York. Duda especially compared Ukraine to a drowning man, risking to drag him to the bottom and drown the one who tries to save him. his (Poland).