Contents tagged with Kaczynski
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Poland seeks arrest of Russian air traffic controllers linked to President Kaczynski's plane crash
The investigative team of the Polish National Prosecutor's Office appealed to the District Court of Warsaw with a request for the temporary arrest of three Russian air traffic controllers who were working at Smolensk airport when the plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed in 2010, a spokeswoman for Poland’s National Prosecutor's Office, told Polskie Radio.
"The investigation team of the Prosecutor General's Office appealed to the district court of the Warsaw-Mokotow district …
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Kaczynski: Russia attacks where it sees weakness and a chance of victory
Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Poland’s Law and Justice party, said that Russia “attacks where it sees a weak spot and a chance of victory”. “This was the case in Crimea and in eastern Ukraine. However, it has problems wherever decisive resistance arises, even diplomatic,” he told Bild in an interview, Polskie Radio reports.
He pointed out that this also applies to Poland and the Baltics, which is why the presence of NATO troops in these countries is important.
“Germany should send more troops, …
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Polish Foreign Ministry summons Russian ambassador over Smolensk catastrophe billboards
The Polish Foreign Ministry has summoned Russian Ambassador to Warsaw Sergey Andreev in connection with information boards placed at the site of the Tu-154 plane crash near Smolensk that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski.
Poland expressed its dissatisfaction with the fact that the boards contain information from the Interstate Aviation Committee’s (IAC) report, which concluded that the aircraft’s crew was responsible for the catastrophe. Warsaw does not agree with the IAC’s findings, and …
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Russia allows Poland to inspect Kaczynski plane crash fragments
The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) has authorized Polish investigators to inspect the fragments of the TU-154m aircraft which crashed near Smolensk, Russia on April 10, 2010, killing all on board, including then Polish President Lech Kaczyński, as announced on the ICR’s official website.
“The ICR is continuing the criminal case investigation into the fact of the crash during landing approach at the (North) Smolensk airport of the Tu-154M (b/n) 101 aircraft of the Air Force of the …
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Poland finds traces of explosives on Kaczynski crash victims
The Polish commission to investigate the Tu-154 airplane catastrophe over Smolensk, which killed then Polish President Lech Kaczyński, said that it has found traces of explosive substances on the body of one of the crash victims. This was announced in a communique from the Polish investigators, as cited by the Polish Press Agency.
According to the Polish investigators, explosive substances were also found “on many fragments” of the plane. However, no traces of it were found on the ground at …
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Polish Prime Minister: after Ukraine Russia will attack Poland and Baltic States
On Friday, March 9th, in Vilnius, the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, gave a press-conference after this meeting with his colleagues from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. During the interview with journalists, Morawiecki remembered the words of the President Lech Kaczyński who died in a plane crash in the Russian Federation, who predicted that the Russian aggression in the world will progress.
As Ukrinform news agency reports, Morawiecki stated that Kaczyński’s predictions remain …