Poland demands €450 million from the Peace Facility and rejects Kallas’s plan for Ukraine

Poland is refusing to support the transfer of the unblocked €6.6 billion from the European Peace Facility to Ukraine and is demanding reimbursement of €450 million for weapons previously supplied to Kyiv.

This was stated by Polish Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk in an interview with RMF FM.

According to the outlet, the €6.6 billion is currently held in an account in Brussels — funds that were unblocked by Hungary. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas proposed splitting the sum: partially and proportionally reimbursing EU member states for their assistance to Ukraine, with the remainder directed toward supporting Ukraine’s military training mission and joint arms procurement for Kyiv. Poland rejected this plan.

“This money is ours. In practice, less money means less funding for the army,” Tomczyk said.

The deputy minister accused Brussels of “trying to change the rules of the game in the middle of the match” and stressed that Poland would fight for every euro.

Slovakia shares Poland’s position — it was the first to announce its intention to demand full reimbursement for weapons transferred to Ukraine. Tomczyk explained the logic of both countries: those states that began supplying weapons earlier and whose contributions are already formalized and scheduled for payment are not prepared to accept reductions in their payments — unlike countries that began providing support later.

“Countries that were the first to supply weapons, such as Poland or Slovakia, and whose contributions are already formalized and scheduled for payment, do not want to agree to a reduction in their payments, which is what countries that started providing support later, such as Germany, want,” Tomczyk noted.

Germany holds the opposite position: Berlin believes the unblocked funds should be transferred to Ukraine rather than returned to national budgets. German Deputy Defense Minister Sebastian Hartmann stressed that returning several hundred million euros to the budgets of individual countries would not change anything fundamentally.

In early June, Politico reported that NATO member states were planning to allocate €70 billion in financial aid to Ukraine for military expenditures, €30 billion of which would form part of an EU loan of €90 billion. Ukraine had previously reported record defense spending for 2026.