Poland boosts defence spending over war in Ukraine - BBC

Poland has announced a crisp summation successful defence spending, saying the alteration is needed due to the fact that of the Ukraine war.

It is the latest European state to accidental it is expanding subject spending arsenic a effect of the conflict.

Poland has a subject fund of conscionable little than 2.5% of its GDP, but the prime curate says helium wants to summation the fig to 4% this year.

"The warfare successful Ukraine makes america limb ourselves adjacent faster. That is wherefore this twelvemonth we volition marque an unprecedented effort: 4% of GDP for the Polish army," Mr Morawiecki said.

Raising defence spending to 4% "might mean that this volition beryllium the highest percentage... among each Nato countries," helium added.

Poland, which borders the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, has antecedently said it was buying 116 Abrams tanks from the US with the archetypal deliveries to commencement this spring.

Russia's penetration of Ukraine has led galore Western countries to reappraisal their subject spending - and successful galore cases, summation it significantly.

Members of the Nato Western subject confederation person agreed to walk astatine slightest 2% of GDP, a measurement of a country's economical output, connected defence from 2024.

Sweden and Finland person announced steep increases successful their subject budgets arsenic portion of their bid to articulation Nato.

Days aft the penetration successful February 2022, Germany pledged an other €100bn of the fund to the equipped forces.

And successful June, the UK promised nether erstwhile premier curate Boris Johnson to summation spending to 2.5% of GDP.