Poland, with election looming, says it isn't sending new arms to Ukraine

FILE PHOTO: Poland's President Andrzej Duda speaks next to Ukraine's Ambassador to the United Nations Sergіy Kyslytsya during a ministerial level meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the crisis in Ukraine at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland is only carrying out previously agreed arms deliveries to Ukraine, a government spokesman said on Thursday, amid souring bilateral relations due to a grain dispute just weeks before a Polish parliamentary election.

Poland's decision to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports has annoyed Kyiv. Poland has been seen until recently as one of Ukraine's staunchest allies in its war with Russia.