Poland will not fund US weapons purchases for Ukraine for now
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his country will not take part in financing PURL for the time being. Under that project, Europeans pay for US weapons for Ukraine. He cited heavy spending on Poland's own defence and a large budget deficit.
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Poland will not, for now, join PURL, a project in which European countries provide money to buy US-made weapons for Ukraine. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said so at a press conference after an informal meeting of European Union (EU) leaders in Dublin. The decision matters because one of Ukraine's closest neighbours will not currently fund this support mechanism.
What Tusk said
Tusk said he had informed NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte of Poland's position. NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance of European and North American countries. According to the prime minister, Poland will not allocate funds to PURL for now because it is already spending a great deal on its own armaments.
He stressed that Poland has given Ukraine very serious help and continues to do so. At the same time, he said, the country has a large budget deficit and spends heavily on defence.
His reasoning
Tusk said that, given its financial capacity, Poland will no longer invest in the project. He explained that the country has its own security-related expenses, which, in his words, are undoubtedly among the highest in Europe.
The source does not give the size of Poland's budget deficit or its defence spending, and it does not say whether the decision could be reconsidered.
