Nawrocki's office calls declassification of aid to Ukraine a mistake
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Officials in the office of Polish President Karol Nawrocki believe the government's decision to declassify information on the assistance Poland has provided to Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion was a mistake, according to comments by presidential spokesperson Rafał Leśkiewicz in an interview with Polsat News.
According to him, information about the assistance Poland has provided to Ukraine should not be made public.
"This is the wrong decision. This is non-public information, and it should not be disclosed... Did the Ministry of National Defense, Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz, or in fact Prime Minister Donald Tusk, seeing what is happening within the coalition and the latest scandals uncovered by journalists, decide to seize the moment and try to divert attention from the issue with a distracting topic related to donations for Ukraine?" the spokesperson said.
Why Leśkiewicz sees it as a distraction
According to him, the issue was raised solely so that, for the next several days, the public would focus on discussing the scale of assistance Poland has provided to Ukraine since the start of the war in 2022.
"So this is a distraction tactic, but the actions announced by Deputy Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz are extremely irresponsible," Leśkiewicz said.
The spokesperson added that it is enough to look at statements made by Ukrainians just two months ago.
"After all, they thanked us for transferring those missiles for the Patriot systems," he stressed.
The decision by the Defense Ministry was also commented on by Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.
"One unfortunate decision by President Zelenskyy does not change the fact that Putin is a threat to Ukraine, NATO and Poland. To be guided solely by emotions is the geopolitics of fools," the minister emphasized.
As previously reported, Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said he had ordered the declassification of military aid provided by Poland to Ukraine since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion.
The decision came amid a controversy surrounding interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems.
In particular, Deputy Speaker of the Polish Sejm and leader of the Confederation party, Krzysztof Bosak, claimed that the government had secretly transferred expensive Patriot interceptor missiles to Ukraine without informing parliament.
According to him, these missiles are the only weapons in the Polish military's arsenal capable of countering Russian Iskander missiles.
