Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in Kyiv last week that Poland would send tens of thousands of rounds of artillery ammunition, light mortars, man-portable air-defence systems and surveillance drones to its ex-Soviet neighbour to help it defend itself against a possible Russian move.
Government spokesman Piotr Müller told public broadcaster Polish Radio on Tuesday that Warsaw had decided to provide more military assistance to Kyiv amid the threat of a new Russian invasion.
Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said in a media interview that Poland would send a shipment of domestically produced munitions to Ukraine.
He added that Poland was "consistently supporting the European ambitions of Ukraine, which should be able to decide its own future."
"The future of Ukraine should be decided by Ukraine, not someone else," Błaszczak told state broadcaster TVP Info in an interview.
"It is in the interest of our own security that Ukraine remains an independent and sovereign state," he added.
Tensions around Ukraine
Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday met for talks with the German and French leaders in Berlin, and the three leaders said that a war in Ukraine must be averted amid concern over a Russian military buildup.
In recent days, planes carrying US troops and army equipment have landed in Poland as part of efforts to bolster NATO's eastern flank and reinforce allies in Eastern Europe amid the Russian buildup.
Russia has amassed more than 100,000 troops around Ukraine in recent weeks, according to media reports, raising fears in the West that Moscow may be preparing for a new invasion of the country.
Moscow has denied plans for an assault but says it could take unspecified military action if its security demands are not met, the Reuters news agency has reported.
Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and then fomented a separatist conflict in that country's eastern Donbas region, leading to a wave of EU and US sanctions against Moscow and Russian officials.
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Source: IAR, PAP, TVP Info