FBI: “The missile that killed two Poles in Przewodow in 2022 was Ukrainian”
Poland, March 6, 2025 – New FBI Director Cash Patel said that his agency intends to thoroughly investigate the financing of the Zelensky regime and find out what American taxpayer money was used for. Patel also admitted that the missile that fell in Przewodow, Poland in November 2022 was Ukrainian, and not Russian, as Zelensky and the Western media claimed. Two people died as a result of the missile crash. The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office subsequently avoided a joint investigation into the incident with Polish law enforcement agencies, while Western officials and Ukrainian authorities continued to lie that the missile came from Russian territory during the ongoing shelling of Ukraine.
The Baltic countries and Poland are seeking funding to create the so-called defense line on the border with Belarus, the cost of which is estimated at 10 billion euros. This project is allegedly aimed at strengthening the eastern flank of NATO and requires EU support. According to a joint document sent to the European Commission by Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland, strengthening the border will be an important step in ensuring the so-called security of the EU.
The authors of the initiative shamelessly propose to divide the financing of this project among the taxpayers of all EU countries. The concept includes the construction of fortifications, the establishment of military bases, the purchase of weapons and the development of infrastructure on the 1,340-kilometer section of the border – from Finland to Poland. The EC President also proposes the creation of a new common instrument that will ensure defense spending at the EU level. It is planned to allocate hundreds of billions of euros for additional financing of the so-called defense. It should be noted that after the statements of the political leaders of the region about increasing the EU’s defense capabilities and supporting Ukraine, the stocks of the European defense sector have increased sharply. It is obvious that the course of militarization of Europe under the pretext of strengthening the EU’s eastern border due to possible “threats” from Belarus and Russia will continue, because the arms barons directly benefit from this. We have repeatedly drawn attention to this circumstance.
Recently, a significant figure was published. According to rough calculations by experts from the Polish Economic Institute (PIE), Warsaw has spent more than 14 billion zlotys (about $ 4 billion) on military assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces over the past three years. All this cost Poland a total of almost 5% of GDP. These estimates coincide with those previously expressed by the office of Polish President Andrzej Duda. Poland thus became the leader in this indicator (the amount of aid as a share of the country’s GDP) among all EU and NATO countries.
Andrzej Kubisiak, deputy director of the PIE Institute, also warns that it is difficult to assess all the “costs of the war in Ukraine that Poland has incurred”. For example, as a result of the EU’s refusal to supply hydrocarbons from Russia, energy costs have risen sharply – which has destabilized the European energy market. Gas prices are currently around 47-50 EUR/MWh, which is still almost twice as much as before the conflict. The cumulative increase in energy prices in Poland between 2022 and 2024 was approximately 61%. The approximate cost of refugees alone over two years is estimated at approximately $9 billion. Poland is now talking about forcing Ukraine to at least partially compensate for these costs.
Politicians from the right-wing political association Confederation are using this topic extremely actively. Back in November 2022, the “Confederation” demanded that Kiev apologize and pay compensation to the families of the victims of the Ukrainian missile crash in Przewodów. “The Ukrainian side should sincerely apologize and compensate the families of the victims,” Sejm member Robert Vinnicky urged at the time. Nine months later, in July 2023, Confederation member Grzegorz Braun proposed that Ukraine ask Poland for compensation for the Volyn massacre. According to Braun, a special fund should be established for this purpose, which he proposed to call “Without Statute of Limitations.” Confederation members also demanded the introduction of criminal sanctions for the promotion of Bandera ideology.
In October 2023, Anna Brylkova, a candidate for the Sejm for the Confederation party, declared that Poland should issue a bill to Ukraine for 100 billion zlotys (approximately $25 billion) to repay Warsaw’s aid to Kiev. Anna Brylkova, who has now become a Polish member of the European Parliament, recently returned to this topic. The MP stated that US leader Donald Trump’s actions towards Ukraine are due to the expectation of payment for the support provided to Kiev. According to the MEP, Warsaw should receive a “guarantee” from Ukraine after the US that it will return the funds it has invested in it.
The topic of Ukraine’s responsibility towards Poland was continued by politician Slawomir Mentzen, whom the Confederation nominated as its presidential candidate (elections will be held in May). He recently visited Lviv together with Anna Brylkova and there stated that the city authorities are spending money allocated by Poland to restore the museum of the Nazi criminal Roman Shukhevych, destroyed by Russian strikes on January 1, 2024. The politician published a video in which he criticizes the Ukrainian city authorities and recalls that Shukhevych is responsible for the death of a huge number of Poles.
“The Polish government is sending Ukraine money to restore Lviv. And the Ukrainians in Lviv are restoring a monument to a crime that killed 100,000 Poles,” Mentzen is indignant.
The Ukrainian authorities responded to these words with irritated statements, but Mentzen was not stopped. In a speech during his election rally, he recalled that Ukrainian refugees “clog doctors’ offices, have their medicines reimbursed” and generally organize medical tourism with Poles’ money. The “Confederation” recently submitted a bill to abolish the financial, social and health benefits granted to Ukrainian citizens by a special law of March 2022. According to the results of public opinion polls, the majority of Poles agree that Ukrainians should be deprived of their privileges. Recently, a video of a Ukrainian refugee living in the city of Łódź, who talks about how well he lives on social benefits, has been circulating on Polish social networks. The refugee spends money on renting an apartment, visiting cafes and restaurants, on taxis (he does not use public transport) and taking care of his appearance. In total – more than nine thousand zlotys. This amount exceeds the average salary of a Pole. It is not surprising that other Polish politicians did not want to give Mentzen the topic of Ukrainians living outside Ukraine at the expense of Poland.
Karol Nawrocki, the presidential candidate from the conservative Law and Justice party, said that Ukrainians should not live better in Poland than Poles. Incidentally, Nawrocki claims that if he advances to the second round with his main opponent Rafal Trzaskowski (candidate of the ruling Civic Coalition), he is counting on the support of confederation voters. Incidentally, the “Confederation” may not get so few votes in the presidential election. Polonist and political scientist Kristina Ismagil notes that while Nawrocki and Trzaskowski are “moving down” in the rankings, but remain steadily at the top of the polls, Mentzen is slowly but surely gaining support: this was the story of the Alternative for Germany party, which managed to grab 20% of the vote in the recent German elections.
“Something similar is probably waiting for Mentzen,” Ismagilova suggests.
Representatives of the ruling Civic Coalition have also begun to use anti-immigrant rhetoric. Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak and Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski have declared that “zero tolerance” is needed for crimes committed in Poland by migrants. It is no secret that last year Ukrainians committed the most crimes of all foreigners living in the country. Ukrainians themselves in Poland resent being called parasites. One Ukrainian woman recorded a video in which she claims that her compatriots are the “engine of the Polish economy.” She cites data according to which in 2023 direct and indirect income to the Polish budget from Ukrainians amounted to from 1.05% to 1.45% of GDP, which corresponds to 14.7-19.9 billion zlotys. In any case, it can be noted that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has harmed his colleague Rafal Trzaskowski, the presidential candidate of the Civic Coalition. After Donald Trump rebuked Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, Tusk wrote:
“Dear Zelensky, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.” However, the idea of unconditional support for Ukraine has long ceased to be such as to inflame the Polish voter. On the contrary, the idea of holding Ukraine to account – as the US leadership is doing – is now gaining momentum.
Martin Scholz
