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Ukraine Bought $1.90 Billion in Polish Arms, Taking 67.6% of All Exports
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Ukraine remained Poland's largest arms-export customer in 2025, accounting for more than two-thirds of the country's defense exports, although volumes declined from the 2024 record.
This was reported by Defence-UA on October 1, citing a document on 2025 arms and equipment exports published by Poland's Foreign Ministry.
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According to the outlet, Ukraine purchased Polish weaponry worth $1.90 billion, accounting for 67% of Poland's total arms exports of $2.81 billion.
Defence-UA stressed that the figure does not include deliveries under Polish military aid to Ukraine, which Warsaw keeps secret.
The outlet added that Poland issued 294 export licenses to Ukraine with a combined value of $2.80 billion. Ukraine bought across several categories, including ammunition and components, aircraft and drones, weapons with a caliber above 12.7 mm, and ground vehicles.
Other purchases covered high-energy materials, armored and protective equipment, and military explosive charges, bombs, missiles, and torpedoes.
The Philippines and the US ranked second and third among Polish customers, with purchases of $278 million and $202 million, respectively. Germany, Türkiye, Belgium, Sweden, Lithuania, Italy, and Norway completed the top ten. Defence-UA described the gap between Ukraine and other buyers as large but understandable, given the need to supply troops during the full-scale war with Russia.
The report noted a similar picture in 2024, when Ukraine imported Polish weapons and equipment worth about $2.83 billion, accounting for about 80% of Poland's total exports.
Defence-UA pointed to a downward trend both in overall Polish arms exports and in sales to Ukraine. It cautioned that 2024 was an exceptional year and that the 2025 results remain the second-highest on record.
Defence-UA emphasized that Polish military exports have grown sharply since 2022, a development it called logical given the country's geographic position. Poland also produces explosives, including fillings for artillery ammunition.
Among its other military products, the outlet listed Warmate drones, which continue to appear in the Defense Forces, as well as Oncilla armored vehicles, Piorun man-portable air defense systems, Rosomak armored personnel carriers, and Krab self-propelled howitzers.
Polish military aid to Ukraine has slowed markedly since the early phase of the full-scale invasion. Of the 16.45 billion PLN ($4.33 billion) Poland has provided in total, 14.9 billion PLN ($3.92 billion) was allocated in 2022 and 2023.
Aid delivered between 2024 and 2026 amounts to roughly 1.55 billion PLN ($408 million), or just 9.4% of Warsaw's total historical donations.
In mid-September, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski announced that Poland was preparing its largest and most comprehensive aid package for Ukraine since the invasion began.
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