According to the facts presented on May 11, the head of the Ministry of National Defense was not aware of the missile appearing in Polish airspace or the violation of Polish airspace on December 16, 2022; the article of “Rzeczpospolita” contains false information – said the Ministry of National Defense.
The Ministry of National Defense responds to the reports of “Rz”
Today’s “Rzeczpospolita” contains incorrect information. According to the facts presented at the conference on May 11 this year, the head of the Ministry of National Defense was not informed about the missile that appeared in Polish airspace on December 16, 2022 or about the violation of Polish airspace
— reads Thursday’s entry from the Ministry of National Defense on Twitter.
An article published in “Rzeczpospolita” on Thursday said that – according to the daily’s findings – the operational commander informed Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Deputy Prime Minister, Chief of the Ministry of National Defense Mariusz Błaszczak about the violation of Polish airspace in December last year. by a Russian missile.
The operational commander decided to inform Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki about the unidentified object of unknown origin. He called him, but the prime minister did not answer. At that time, he also informed the duty service of the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, noting that he was not sure what the object was. The prime minister also found out, and after a few minutes he called the general back
it was written.
As we read in “Rzeczpospolita”, “Information about the unidentified object and who was informed about it was included in the documents of the duty service of the Air Operations Center, in the emergency report of this service, which was released that day before noon was made , and in the detailed report, which was prepared around 2:30 a.m. – Dec. 17.
It was emphasized that the magazine’s findings appear to have been secured by the Supreme Court, which is conducting an inspection of the Russian missile.
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Prosecutions
On April 27, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro announced on Twitter that the prosecutor’s office had opened proceedings regarding the remains of an aerial object found in a forest near Bydgoszcz. The Ministry of National Defense reported that the remains of an unidentified military facility were found near the town of Zamość, about 15 km from Bydgoszcz. The resort assured that there is no danger to residents.
A day later, the operational commander, General Tomasz Piotrowski, said that “intensive investigations, checks, intensive dialogue between different types of institutions are underway” to determine how the equipment could have gotten there and what its origin is. He was referring to the events of mid-December last year, when the Russians carried out one of the massive rocket attacks on Ukraine. The Prime Minister announced that he had instructed Błaszczak to take the matter under his personal supervision.
Two weeks later, the head of the Ministry of National Defense stated that “procedures and response mechanisms in the case of the object found near Bydgoszcz were working properly up to the level of the operational commander.” He accused General Piotrowski of not informing him or the relevant services about the missile that had entered Polish airspace. According to the minister, the December 16 report, which he received from COD, contained information that on that day “no violation or exceedance of the airspace of the Republic of Poland was recorded, which – as it turned out – was false”. He added that any personnel decisions would be made after consultation with the president.
The National Security Bureau (BBN) stated a day later that the information available to the president “does not justify making personnel decisions” regarding the top command staff of the Polish military, and the president has not received any request in this regard. matter. General Piotrowski appealed to “reason and balancing of emotions, so that we do not feed an ambitious and aggressive adversary, that we do not allow ourselves to be divided into groups; so that there will never again be situations that help the enemy and hurt us.”
In the statement at the time, the Ministry of National Defense stated that the conclusions of the report submitted to the President and Prime Minister clearly indicate the negligence of the Armed Forces Operation Commander and are in line with the results of the NIK audit recently submitted at the Ministry of National Defence.
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Source: wPolityce
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