'Poland will not arm Ukraine'

Local residents take images of a still smouldering burnt out military truck on a road in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, 07 September 2014. Media reports state that shelling was heard and explosions seen in Mariupol overnight 07 September although Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had said on 06

He denies claims made by Ukrainian presidential adviser Yuriy Lutsenko, who wrote on his blog that five NATO states: Poland, Norway, Italy, France and the United States, will be delivering modern weaponry.

“No such arrangements were made at the summit," underlined the defence minister.

At the recent NATO summit in Wales , at which Ukrainian head of state Petro Poroshenko was present, it was decided that the Alliance will cooperate with Ukraine in military logistics, communication, and information security.

Ukraine had also been offered financial support for the modernisation of the armed forces.