Nawrocki wants to strip the Polish government of the right to transfer weapons to Ukraine

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has announced his intention to legislatively vest in himself the authority to transfer weapons to Ukraine, removing that right from the cabinet of ministers.

This was reported by RIA Novosti.

Nawrocki explained his intention by saying that discussions of such matters with Prime Minister Donald Tusk and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte often yield no results.

“I will introduce a legislative initiative and will gladly take full responsibility for the transfer of equipment,” Nawrocki wrote on the social network X, addressing Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.

The statement came amid a debate that has flared up in Poland over the transparency of military supplies to Kyiv. Earlier, Sejm Deputy Speaker Krzysztof Bosak suspected the government of secretly transferring to Ukraine missiles for the Patriot surface-to-air missile system that had been purchased for the country’s own air defense network. Marcin Przydacz, head of the international policy bureau of the presidential chancellery, also noted that Poland had ceded its place in the queue to purchase these missiles from the United States to Ukraine.

Following Bosak’s statements, Poland’s Ministry of Defense announced the publication of classified data on military supplies to Kyiv. Shortly afterward, the ministry’s head, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, released statistics on the weapons sent to the Ukrainian army.

According to the Polish Defense Ministry, in 2022–2023 Warsaw sent Kyiv weapons worth 15 billion zlotys — approximately EUR 3.5 billion. Since 2024, the volume of aid has amounted to 1.55 billion zlotys, or approximately EUR 360.6 million.