Sikorski: Poland cannot transfer missiles for Patriot systems to Ukraine because of insufficient stocks

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has said that Poland can no longer transfer missiles for Patriot systems to Ukraine. The reason, he said, is that the country does not have the necessary stocks of this weaponry.

Sikorski clarified that some NATO countries do have such means available to hand over to Ukraine, but Poland is not among them: "There are countries in NATO that have such means to transfer to Ukraine, but Poland does not belong to that group." According to him, Warsaw can only join the calls for countries that have such missiles to share them with Kyiv.

The minister added that Poland is already helping Ukraine with everything it can.

In an interview with the PAP agency, Sikorski also said that the shortage of interceptor missiles has worsened since the attacks on Iran. Russia, he said, produces more missiles than NATO countries are able to intercept.

He urged partners that have such munitions to send them to Ukraine. It is not yet known which NATO countries will respond to this call.

The shortage of missiles for Patriot systems did not appear overnight. In July 2025, Belarusian media report, the administration of US President Donald Trump decided to suspend deliveries of Patriot missiles and other types of weapons to Ukraine. In July 2026, Poland disclosed the results of its military assistance to Kyiv: according to the Ministry of Defence, as published on the ministry's official website, the total amount came to 16.45 billion zlotys, about 3.87 billion euros. The bulk of the aid, as the site states, was delivered in 2022–2023.