The Minister of Defense of Poland, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, announced this Sunday that the Executive will proceed to declassify "all donations" of military material sent to Ukraine from 2022 to this year. With this decision, he intends to close the political crisis generated by the vice-president of the lower house of Parliament, the far-right Krzysztof Bosak, who accused the Government of having transferred Patriot equipment to Kyiv in March without informing either the citizens or the Legislature.
Bosak caused social alarm with a message disseminated on Saturday morning on social networks, in which he assured that "the government handed over expensive and hard-to-obtain interceptor missiles for Patriot systems to Ukraine, in secret and without talking to the Sejm (the lower house)".
The far-right leader maintained that the shipment of these PAC-3 MSE missiles, integrated into the Patriot anti-aircraft system, if confirmed, would have left Poland practically defenseless against Russian Iskander missiles, considered one of the main threats in Moscow's arsenal.
The former Minister of Defense Mariusz Blaszczak, now a deputy from the opposition Law and Justice party, has demanded urgent clarifications, considering that the PAC-3 MSE represent "the most valuable element of Polish air defense to Ukraine" and that, if their secret shipment is confirmed, the scandal "could be gigantic".
"If the Government really decided to transfer them abroad, amid Russian provocations and threats to Poland's security, as they themselves told us, it would be an action completely contrary to the basic duty of the authorities to guarantee the security of their own citizens," added the former minister, who has requested immediate explanations.
In response to these accusations, Kosiniak-Kamysz has opted to make public all documents related to these supplies, after consulting with the Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, and in line with "responsibility towards public opinion." At the same time, he has announced the opening of an investigation to identify "whoever decided to reveal state secrets."
"We are acting under war conditions on our border; every action against the Polish national interest endangers the security of Polish men and women. That is why we will hold everyone accountable, regardless of immunities," the minister stated on social networks, in a message also addressed to Blaszczak.
The controversy erupts as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been warning for days that the country is running out of these types of missiles, considered essential to counter Russian attacks, in a context of scarcity aggravated by the war with Iran.
As early as March, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius tried to gather more than 30 Patriot missiles along with other European partners. A month later, at the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group held in Rammstein (Germany), the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, thanked Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland for the additional supply of weaponry.