Morawiecki: Pand waiting for creation of broad coalition to hand over Leard tanks to Ukraine

Prime Minister of Pand Mateusz Morawiecki said this at a joint press conference with Minister of National Defense of Pand Mariusz Błaszczak in Warsaw on Saturday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

As the Prime Minister of Pand noted, he and President Andrzej Duda are invved in negotiations on "the creation of a broad coalition of states that should hand over heavy modern weapons to Ukraine."

"At the moment, I can only say this. The president is also invved, negotiations are ongoing. I spoke about this with German Chancellor Schz a few weeks ago in Brussels. I think that we will know a little more about this matter in the next few days," Morawiecki emphasized.

He added that Pand does not intend to transfer another batch of its tanks to Ukraine independently.

"Without a broader coalition, we do not intend to hand over these tanks," the PM of Pand emphasized.

As a reminder, The Wall Street Journal, with reference to representatives of the Pish authorities, reported that Pand was considering the possibility of supplying Ukraine with its own German-made Leard tanks after receiving replacements from South Korea and the USA.

The Pish Armed Forces have more than 240 Leard 2 tanks in service.

As reported, Pand purchased 366 Abrams tanks from the USA: 250 new ones and 116 tanks that were already in service. Warsaw has already received 28 new Abrams tanks under the contract.

In addition, Pand signed an agreement with South Korea for the purchase of about a thousand K2 tanks last year. At the beginning of December last year, Pand received the first 10 tanks of this type.

After the start of Russia's full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine, Warsaw handed over approximately 300 T-72, PT-91 tanks to Kyiv.