Zakharova Comments on Duda's Remarks about Russia's Victory in Ukraine

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova affirmed that supplying Ukraine with Western weapons will not help Kyiv win, commenting on the remarks of Polish President Andrzej Duda.

"It will not help you. It will only make it worse. Repentance for what you have done is the only way out for the West," Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel.

Earlier, Duda highlighted that his country may not be able to deliver Western fighter jets to Ukraine to help it fend off Russia’s invasion.

“A decision today to donate any kind of jets, any F-16, to donate them outside Poland is a very serious decision and it’s not an easy one for us to take,” Duda told the BBC in an interview on Sunday.

His comments came after Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy travelled around Europe last week to lobby for additional military aid, including long-range artillery and ammunition, air defence systems, missiles and fighter jets.

Duda said any decision to send fighter jets “requires a decision by the Allies anyway, which means that we have to make a joint decision.”