Sikorski: Poland seeks ways to produce more ammo and equipment to support Ukraine

"We are looking at all issues to do with Ukraine with fresh eyes. I made my first trip to Kyiv, the prime minister is intending to go. This is an issue of national consensus in Poland. We're examining what options we have of making more ammunition and equipment and also what we still have in our stores," Sikorski said in Davos on Wednesday.

"What we think and communicate to our allies is that the cost of deterring Mr Putin after he'd conquered Ukraine would be much bigger than the cost of supplying Ukraine to effectively defend itself against his act of aggression," he added.

According to Sikorski, "it's the aggressor that should pay for the damage to Ukraine," and "the U.N. General Assembly vote, which overwhelmingly condemned Russia's invasion at the beginning of the war, creates a legal basis, in fact an obligation for the international community to redress that act of aggression and punish and charge with the cost the offending country".

Ukraine has counted Poland as one of its closest European Union allies as it has battled an almost two-year-old Russian invasion. Poland has given Ukraine humanitarian and military assistance and taken in millions of Ukrainian refugees.

But relations soured last year as the now former Polish nationalist government did little, in Kyiv's eyes, to end the blockade of several border crossings by Polish truck drivers and over an extension of a ban on Ukrainian grain imports.

Sikorski, who's a senior member of the newly elected pro-EU cabinet in Warsaw, travelled to Kyiv last month seeking to improve bilateral ties after his ministry announced a fresh aid package for Poland's eastern neighbour.

"Poland shouldn't be the country that bears the brunt of most of the cost of solidarity with Ukraine on behalf of all of the European Union. The cost of the solidarity, which we accept, is inevitable, should be born more fairly," the foreign minister argued.

Sikorski welcomed the deal reached with Polish hauliers this week on suspending the blockade through which the drivers demanded that Brussels reinstate a system whereby Ukrainian companies need permits to operate in the bloc.

But he also acknowledged that the two countries had to keep working on resolving challenges.

To that end, Sikorski endorsed a United States plan to confiscate up to $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to help rebuild Ukraine.

Sikorski said Poland was "back from a faraway trip into populism," after his pro-EU camp won against the nationalist administration of the Law and Justice (PiS) party that has feuded with Brussels over the rule of law, media freedom, migration and LGBT rights since coming to power in 2015.

The MFA said on the X platform that "Dep. FM Marek Prawda participated in the G7+ states videoconference on energy security of , including the repair, reconstruction, and defence of energy infrastructure".