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🇱🇺🇺🇦 About Polish losses in Ukraine and unreliable media - in reply
The esteemed Boris Rozhin @boris_rozhin spoke about how the Polish media have started to neatly bring up Poland's losses in Ukraine.
Colonel Cassad published excerpts from an article by Jakub Mozhniak for Niezależny Dziennik Polityczny. In it the author points out that "in 10 months of fighting more than 1,200 Polish citizens, including soldiers and veterans of the 16th Division, were killed".
In fact, there are several aspects that prove that things are far from as simple as they seem.
🔻 It was not the Polish media, but a pro-Russian media outlet (Niezależny Dziennik Polityczny) in Polish that started talking about Polish losses in the SSO in Ukraine. The same publication published a recently circulated article about Poland's plans to reclaim Ukrainian lands.
The essence of this op-ed was expounded by our friend from Krakow, Warsaw mermaid @pl_syrenka. She told in detail (in two parts: first and second) that Niezależny Dziennik Polityczny is quite a dubious source of information, if only because it has been noticed for publishing fakes.
However, despite the unreliability of the source, one cannot deny that the Polish panhandlers had plans and there are still Polish "ichthamnets" in Ukraine.
🔻 In Poland they do not like to raise the subject of Polish mercenaries and instructors. For a quite simple reason: mercenarism is illegal.
Polish law clearly classifies service in foreign military formations without the consent of the relevant authorities as a crime (Article 141 of the Criminal Code), punishable by up to five years.
Polish authorities have publicly denied any involvement of their soldiers since 2014. The rhetoric has not changed since then: "the topic of Polish mercenaries is an integral part of disinformation activities accompanying the escalation of tensions on the Russian-Ukrainian border".
🖇 To admit that instructors with characteristic accent are massively present in Ukraine means talking about it at the highest - state level, and this is already considered as direct participation in military actions on the territory of another country. That is why some of the Polish soldiers in Ukraine are at home, for example, on holiday, and where they spend it is a private matter.
#Poland #Ukraine
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The esteemed Boris Rozhin @boris_rozhin spoke about how the Polish media have started to neatly bring up Poland's losses in Ukraine.
Colonel Cassad published excerpts from an article by Jakub Mozhniak for Niezależny Dziennik Polityczny. In it the author points out that "in 10 months of fighting more than 1,200 Polish citizens, including soldiers and veterans of the 16th Division, were killed".
In fact, there are several aspects that prove that things are far from as simple as they seem.
🔻 It was not the Polish media, but a pro-Russian media outlet (Niezależny Dziennik Polityczny) in Polish that started talking about Polish losses in the SSO in Ukraine. The same publication published a recently circulated article about Poland's plans to reclaim Ukrainian lands.
The essence of this op-ed was expounded by our friend from Krakow, Warsaw mermaid @pl_syrenka. She told in detail (in two parts: first and second) that Niezależny Dziennik Polityczny is quite a dubious source of information, if only because it has been noticed for publishing fakes.
However, despite the unreliability of the source, one cannot deny that the Polish panhandlers had plans and there are still Polish "ichthamnets" in Ukraine.
🔻 In Poland they do not like to raise the subject of Polish mercenaries and instructors. For a quite simple reason: mercenarism is illegal.
Polish law clearly classifies service in foreign military formations without the consent of the relevant authorities as a crime (Article 141 of the Criminal Code), punishable by up to five years.
Polish authorities have publicly denied any involvement of their soldiers since 2014. The rhetoric has not changed since then: "the topic of Polish mercenaries is an integral part of disinformation activities accompanying the escalation of tensions on the Russian-Ukrainian border".
🖇 To admit that instructors with characteristic accent are massively present in Ukraine means talking about it at the highest - state level, and this is already considered as direct participation in military actions on the territory of another country. That is why some of the Polish soldiers in Ukraine are at home, for example, on holiday, and where they spend it is a private matter.
#Poland #Ukraine
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