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20.01.2023Poland will train and equip a Ukrainian brigade-level unit"As part of the new support package for Ukraine, I presented our Polish support - we will be able to both equip and train Ukrainian soldiers on a scale up to brigade level by the end of March. Equipment will be well used. These will include armoured personnel carriers and T-72 tanks." - Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said in Ramstein.
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19.01.2023Poland in favor of continued military support for defending Ukraine"Our view is clear, simple and consistent - Ukraine should be supported and we are doing that. As we were doing even before Ukraine was invaded, and as we will continue to do. We all know very well that there are states that are truly involved in helping, and states that help only symbolically, or perhaps even only staging any help. Our task is to convince and show that only real, actual aid matters. Otherwise, we face a very grave prospect. (...) Our task is to support Ukraine and convince our Allies that such support makes sense." - Mariusz Blaszczak, Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of National Defense, said after a videoconference with defense ministers of countries supporting Ukraine.
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10.01.2023Poland and Romania are strengthening security on NATO's eastern flank"I am highly satisfied with the meeting that the minister held today with Romanian soldiers stationed in Poland. I thanked him for the fact that Romanian soldiers are stationed as part of the NATO Battalion Battle Group on Polish soil, and for the fact that we are building interoperability between our armed forces. We also discussed the subject of our cooperation, which is very smooth, which we can both be proud of. We have a lot in common, both historically and in terms of today's military cooperation. In the NATO format, but also in the Bucharest Nine and the European Union" - said Mariusz Błaszczak, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense during a meeting with the Minister of Defense of Romania.
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04.01.2023116 Abrams M1A1 tanks will go to the equipment of the Polish Armed ForcesWe strengthen the Polish military, the Polish Armed Forces, and the „iron fist” of the Polish Army in order to effectively deter the aggressor. One of the elements of the strengthening process is providing the Polish Army with the proper equipment – it is the best factor in our entire deterrence policy. Abrams tanks are such equipment - said Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Błaszczak.
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27.12.2022Observation satellites will strengthen the reconnaissance capabilities of the Polish Armed Forces“Thank you for our talks, which, with no doubt, were extremely interesting, and which testify to close Polish-French relations - both in bilateral contact as well as within the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Today, we had the opportunity to jointly approve an agreement between the European Airbus company, its French branch, and the Armament Agency on equipping the Polish Armed Forces with two reconnaissance satellites. This is an extremely imperative capacity and an opportunity to complement everything that comes with deterrence and early warning capabilities. Both in the military and civilian dimension” - noted Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Błaszczak after the meeting with Sébastien Lecornu, the head of the French Ministry of Defence.
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23.12.2022We build security on strong pillars- In July last year, we informed the public about the decision we had taken. The decision to purchase and equip the Polish land forces with 250 state-of-the-art Abrams tanks. In August this year, here at the training ground in Biedrusko, in the Land Forces Training Center, the "Abrams Academy" began its activity. Exercises have begun. Training of Polish crews and military technicians to operate these tanks, which are the most modern in the world, has begun. Next year, the Polish Army will receive the first used Abrams tanks. Ultimately, the Polish land forces will have 366 Abrams tanks at their disposal, including 250 tanks of the latest generation - said the head of the Ministry of National Defense during the meeting with Polish soldiers.
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21.12.2022It is our duty to remember the fallenWe remember all the soldiers who carry out their mission and service. We especially remember the soldiers who lost their lives serving on missions outside our country. Today marks 11 years since the tragic accident in Afghanistan, when five 20th Mechanized Brigade’s soldiers were killed while performing their duties in Afghanistan - said Mariusz Błaszczak, Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of National Defense during the celebrations of the Day of Remembrance for the Fallen and Dead in Missions and Operations outside the State Borders.
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20.12.2022Thank you for the daily service that gives Poles a sense of security- Most of all, thank you, the Polish Armed Forces’ soldiers and officers of other services, for your daily service, which assures our homeland’s security. Mr. President mentioned the safeguarding of the Polish-Belarusian border, the model cooperation between the Polish soldiers and the officers of the services subordinated to the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, as well as everything that determines the safety of our homeland - said Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Błaszczak, on the occasion of the upcoming Christmas, during the meeting in Rzeszów.
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12.12.2022Korean K9 howitzers will strengthen the newly-created 1st Masurian Artillery Brigade“Soldiers of the 11th Artillery Regiment, from now on the 1st Masurian Artillery Brigade, have received modern equipment. The Russian aggression against Ukraine confirmed how significant it is for the Polish Armed Forces to be strong. How important it is to be equipped with modern and effective weapons. The idea is to deter the aggressor and cause a state in which he will not dare to attack Poland. And he will not dare to do so when the Polish Armed Forces are strong. We efficiently strengthen the Polish Armed Forces, as evidenced by these 24 K9 gun-howitzers imported from South Korea, which now are in the brigade’s equipment" said Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Błaszczak during the handover of the first K9 gun-howitzers to the Polish Armed Forces.
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09.12.2022The first K2 tanks handed over to the soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces“Things have accelerated. On August 26, I approved the contract to purchase K2 tanks for the Polish Armed Forces' equipment. Today, the first examples of these tanks, which arrived in the port of Gdynia a few days ago, are here in the earmarked military unit, in the 20th Mechanized Brigade - a brigade which thanks to the delivery of the K2 tank battalion to Morąg grows. We intend to create another battalion in Ostróda, in the very place where in 2011 the government of the PO-PSL coalition liquidated the previously existing military unit” - said Mariusz Błaszczak, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense during the handover of the first K2 tanks to the Polish Armed Forces.