(ANSA) - LONDON, 08 MAR - "The United Kingdom is ready to increase its (military) support for Poland" to protect it as a NATO partner if it "requests it" against the backdrop of the Russian invasion in neighboring Ukraine.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today - according to a note released by Downing Steet - when he met face to face with the Polish colleague Mateusz Morawiecki on the sidelines of a meeting in London which was later extended to the leaders of Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic: that is, the countries that together with Warsaw form the so-called Group of Visegrad (V4).
The note underlines the harmony between Johnson and the Eastern European allies on the need to strengthen the sanctions against Moscow's "barbaric actions" and to "coordinate closely" also to "ensure the supply of defensive aid to Ukraine".
Aid among which, however, no type of weaponry is explicitly mentioned or excluded, nor in particular the hypothesis of sending military jets to Kiev - as requested for some time by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and now also mentioned by Washington - which in the event should depart from Poland.
(HANDLE).