Polish President Andrzej Duda has said that the South Korean weapons the country acquired will serve Poland’s defense and not Ukraine’s, Polish media RMF24 reported.
“There is no scenario under consideration in which we hand over weapons, which we have recently purchased for billions of złoty from the pockets of our taxpayers, to anyone. These weapons are to serve the security and defense of the Republic of Poland,” Duda said about a potential weapons transfer to Kyiv.
He issued the statement during his official visit to South Korea to continue their defense and economic cooperation after Warsaw procured $5.7 billion worth of main battle tanks and howitzers from Seoul to bolster its defenses.
In his four-day visit, Duda and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol also discussed escalating threats on the Korean Peninsula and the Russia-Ukraine War, which now involves the deployment of North Korean troops.
South Korea has a longstanding policy that bars it from selling weapons into active conflict zones.
However, in a press conference with Duda, Yoon said this might change “depending on North Korean troops’ activities in Russia.”