Mateusz Morawiecki aims to persuade Berlin to transfer Leopard combat tanks to Ukraine

He will talk about this with representatives of several political groups, Morawiecki said on the air of RMF FM radio station on January 14.

It is reported that Morawiecki doesn’t know if he can convince German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to transfer Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine. He also noted that he doesn’t expect such a decision to be made in the coming days

"These are processes that require long discussions, but the pressure must be constant. This decision (on Patriot missile systems - ed.) took the German authorities about a month and a half. They said that Patriot missile systems were going only to Poland, but after pressure, they agreed to send them to Ukraine," he reminded.

Morawiecki stressed that Poland has already decided to transfer combat tanks to Ukraine.

• On January 11, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the leaders of Poland and Lithuania Andrzej Duda and Gitanas Nausėda in Lviv. Duda said that Ukraine would receive a company of Leopard tanks as part of an international coalition.

• Finland may transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine if other countries do it first and the corresponding project of assistance to Ukraine is launched at the European level.