Warsaw is considering sending more Patriot air-defense missiles to Ukraine, with a decision expected within days, Deputy Defense Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka has said. As Russia intensifies its campaign of ballistic missile strikes on Ukraine, Kyiv has appealed to its international partners to provide air-defense munitions, particularly Patriot missiles, as its stockpiles have been exhausted. JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Warsaw has yet to commit any new Patriot munitions to Ukraine, and the topic is a thorny one politically against the backdrop of an ongoing diplomatic dispute between the two countries. Poland will take a decision “in the coming days, Sobkowiak-Czarnecka told Polish news service RMF 24 on Thursday. “It is a decision that is always taken at the highest level,” she said, adding that the matter will be coordinated with the US and other NATO allies. The deputy minister went on to say that after an armed Russian missile landed in Poland in July—the first ever such incident in a NATO country—Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz had said it would be preferable to intercept such threats over Ukrainian territory. “The decision must be taken in the context of the security of Poles, and all arguments must be weighed,” she said. Political hot potato The issue has become a hot political topic among NATO allies as many alliance members have low reserves of the missiles themselves.