WARSAW: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday announced a slew of measures aimed at boosting his country´s defence, including a possible exit from a landmark anti-mines treaty and large-scale military trainings for men.

Poland, a staunch Ukraine ally, has been arming itself heavily as it eyes warily neighbouring Russia and amid calls from US President Donald Trump for European countries to take more responsibility for their own defence.

Warsaw is already far ahead of its allies in terms of military expenditure, aiming to spend 4.7 percent of its GDP on defence this year — and now it mulls new measures. “We are facing a very serious race, and it is a race for security,” Tusk told the parliament.

“We must be aware that Poland must reach for the most modern possibilities, also related to nuclear weapons and modern unconventional weapons,” he said, pledging Poland would use “every available opportunity to increase our defence”.

A new military training scheme was intended to be ready by the end of the year “so that every adult man in Poland is trained in case of war,” Tusk announced. The trainings will turn “those who do not join the army to fully-fledged and valuable soldiers during a conflict,” Tusk said, adding the goal was to have a military reserve force “adequate to potential threats”.

Tusk, who this week has called on Europe to strengthen its defences to win the “arms race” with Moscow, has also backed withdrawing his country from a landmark treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel landmines.