Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki traveled to Kiev yesterday to personally hand over four—count ’em, 4—Leopard 2 tanks to the Kiev regime. Ten more are promised. Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak made the announcement at the beginning of a meeting of Poland’s National Security Council in Warsaw on Feb. 24, reported Polish Radio. “Today, Leopard tanks from Poland have arrived in Ukraine,” Blaszczak announced. He also “revealed” that Ukrainian soldiers were “simultaneously being trained on Leopards by Polish, Canadian and Norwegian instructors at a center in Swietoszów” in southwestern Poland.
The handover of Poland-provided Leopard tanks to Ukraine was later confirmed by government spokesman Piotr Müller, who was accompanying Morawiecki to Kiev. Müller said in a tweet: “Prime Minister Morawiecki has met with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Polish prime minister has confirmed the handover of Leopard tanks to Ukraine.”
Morawiecki later told reporters in Kiev that Warsaw is also ready to train Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 (though the Polish government has already said that it won’t give any of its F-16s to Ukraine) provided that there’s a broad coalition that agrees. “We are ready to offer such training onboard F-16 fighter jets in Poland,” he said, adding that “it needs to be agreed with the board coalition.”
